Would you like to present to your peers about something you and your perioperative team have accomplished, or deliver your thought leadership on a topic that is relevant to perioperative services, at Periop Leader Week 2027, which will take place Oct. 4 to 7, 2027, in Indianapolis? Well, our lines…
Do you really know all of the places and ways that AI is being used in your ASC? If not, it’s time to perform an inventory and take control of the situation before it gets away from you. And “getting away from you” could mean everything from survey failures to…
Are you an ASC leader who’d like to present to your peers about something you and your team have accomplished, or deliver your thought leadership on a topic that is relevant to ambulatory surgery, at Periop Leader Week 2027 (Oct. 4 to 7, 2027, in Indianapolis)? Well, our lines are…
One study that has received a lot of attention coning out the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026 meeting was “Impact of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists on Postoperative Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Infection: A Cohort Study.” “The use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) has increased since their approval…
Walk into any of your ORs during a total joint procedure tomorrow morning and look around the table. The surgeon is licensed, credentialed, and privileged. There’s a defined list of what they may do in your facility, anchored to verified qualifications. Your anesthesia providers, nurses, and surgical technologists practice under…
“Enhancing Perioperative Emergency Readiness Through Simulation, ICS, and After-Action Review”—a poster by Rebecca Rayburn, RN, MS, CAPA, ABLS, perianesthesia senior nurse manager pre/post, and Meghan Rider, MS, RN, instructor of clinical nursing, both with University of Rochester Medicine’s Sawgrass Surgery Center—won second prize in the Periop Leader Week 2026 Poster…
During her session at Periop Leader Week 2026, “How to Open a Cardiac ASC,” Deb Yoder, RN, MHA, BSN, CNOR, CASC, CEO of Aligned Surgery & Healthcare Consulting, laid everything out for ASC leaders in candid, practical terms. Her overriding message: A cardiovascular (CV) ASC is not your average or…
Recently, we co-hosted the Transform Virtual Summit with our partner LeanTaaS, bringing together perioperative leaders to share fresh approaches to one of the industry’s most persistent challenges: unlocking surgical capacity. For many perioperative leaders, the challenges are familiar: ORs sitting idle despite growing demand, rigid block schedules that aren’t being…
An original investigation in perioperative medicine, published ahead of print in the journal Anesthesiology, finds that air purification and sterilization systems may not be living up to their billing. An article published by UTHealth Houston stated that the study of more than 110,000 surgeries found that “adding advanced air purification…
Proponents of environmental sustainability in surgery have long believed that facilities should reduce their use of high-emission anesthetic gases such as desflurane and nitrous oxide. A new study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2026 annual meeting suggests they’re correct. The researchers compared one health system’s anesthetic use, estimated emissions, costs and…
