Outpatient Surgery Magazine

4 8 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • O C T O B E R 2 0 1 6 HEAVY DUTY Are you prepared to treat the rising population of obese patients? • WEIGHING HEAVILY Facilities everywhere are struggling to deal with larger and larger patients. Jim Burger | Senior Editor

• Cover: Heavy Duty - Outpatient Surgery Magazine October 2016
• Table of Contents: Features
• Table of Contents: Departments
• Editor's Page: An Administrator's Work Is Never Done
• Letters & E-mail
• Ideas That Work: Keep Your Staff's Cell Phones Out of the ORs
• Ideas That Work: Do You Let Patients Go Home Alone in a Taxi?
• Ideas That Work: Shine a Light on Dirty ORs
• Ideas That Work: Are Your Laryngoscope Blades Disappearing?
• Ideas That Work: No Need to Remove Clothing Before Cataract Surgery
• Ideas That Work: Stay on Top of Post-op Complications
• Ideas That Work: An Idea That Doesn't Work
• Ideas That Work: An Unlikely Ally in Attracting New Surgeons
• Ideas That Work: Innovative Ideas
• Ideas That Work: Keep Staff Informed With Weekly E-mail Digest
• Business Advisor: Get Patients to Pay in Full on the Day of Surgery
• Anesthesia Alert: Take the Fear Out of Mask Induction for Kids
• Medical Malpractice: Yes Patients Can Directly Sue Your Facility
• Coding & Billing: Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
• Heavy Duty: Are you prepared to treat the rising population of obese patients?
• The Future of Anesthesia
• Orchestrating the Sights and Sounds of Surgery
• Can You Pass Our Surface Disinfection Quiz?
• Doubling Down on Cataract Surgery
• Hitting the Sweet Spot With Reposable Instruments
• Should You Add Laser Floater Removal?
• Can You Speed Up Your Reprocessing Department?
• Thinking of Buying ... Orthopedic Image Guidance and Robotic Systems
• Cutting Remarks: Wanna Get Away?
• Product News
• Behind Closed Doors: The Long and Lonely Road to Recovery