Safety Vascular surgeon Mounir ‘Joseph’ Haurani, MD, MPH of East Carolina University, recently spoke with Venous News, “the international newspaper for venous specialists,” about the current state of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) care, particularly the deficits in care for patients post-hospital discharge. Among his insights: More than 900,000 Americans are affected…
People magazine last week reported on a husband’s reaction to his wife’s death at a surgery center. The outlet writes that a 48-year-old woman underwent a 10-hour surgery at a plastic surgery center. She stopped breathing the next day, was revived with CPR, but was pronounced brain-dead. The patient had…
Two ASCs publicly reported data security incidents over the last week. Covenant Health’s Advanced Family Surgery Center, formally known as Surgery Center of Oak Ridge (Tenn.), LLC, stated that “on or around November 26, 2025,” it “became aware of a network intrusion that affected a limited number of systems” and…
A narrative review article published this week in ACOS General Surgery zeroes in on frailty as a surgical vital sign, with discussion of risk stratification and outcomes for these patients in general surgery. The authors, largely from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, note that although frailty has…
The ASC Quality Collaboration (ASCQC), an independent, nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to advancing patient safety and quality of care delivery in ASCs, has announced that its ASC Safety & Quality Assessment is now open for its second year. Nearly 400 ASCs participated in the 2025 assessment, and ASCQC hopes even more…
Despite your and your staff’s best intentions, do your facility’s hallways become clogged with equipment and other materials? Are your storage areas overflowing and spilling out into these important corridors? Is it a recurring situation where action is taken to clear the hallways and then, over the course of the…
Salisbury, Md., CBS affiliate WBOC-TV reports that a Talbot County jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a 76-year-old patient who claims a general surgeon at University of Maryland Shore Medical Center (UMSMC) in Easton, Md., failed to properly diagnose and treat his stomach issue during surgery, which led to permanent…
A fire at Bartlett Regional Hospital in Juneau, Alaska, delayed elective surgeries at the facility for several days. According to the hospital, the fire occurred last Thursday inside a utility closet within its surgical services unit due to a worker accidentally cutting into electrical heat tape. “A Code Red alert…
The ever-accelerating usage of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists among the general population is impacting perioperative teams that are concerned about patient safety. Two new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) researchers provide what the institution calls “important early evidence” in terms of perioperative considerations for these patients. The studies,…
A prominent orthopedic surgeon has leveraged the platform of mass media outlet Fortune to call for increased transparency among his peers and their institutions to enable patients to make more informed decisions about whom they will allow to operate on them. Mathias Bostrom, MD, associate surgeon-in-chief and director of quality and…
