The first lumbar artificial disc replacement at the surgery center did not feel like a first to Philip Saville, MD. He had already performed the procedure in outpatient settings. The operation itself ...

The first lumbar artificial disc replacement at the surgery center did not feel like a first to Philip Saville, MD. He had already performed the procedure in outpatient settings. The operation itself ...

The bottleneck is turning that view into action before the next case slips. A report gets read, reviewed, and routed for approval. By the time someone acts on it, the problem has either fixed itself ...

Reimbursement changes and margin pressure are pushing more surgical volume out of the hospital operating room and into ASCs at rapid pace. For health systems chasing lower costs and new growth, the ...

Across the country, health systems continue to invest in operating rooms while surgeons still hear the same message: there isn’t enough OR time. Yet when organizations take a closer look, the story is ...

The most important question in outpatient spine surgery is not what surgeons can do. It is what they should do. Krishna Satyan, MD, a neurosurgeon at Dallas Neurosurgical & Spine, sees a meaningful ...

A cardiovascular perfusionist runs the heart-lung machine during surgeries to keep blood and oxygen moving through the body. Becoming a cardiovascular perfusionist takes at least six years, including ...