Editor-in-Chief Joy Don Baker discusses highlights of the July 2017 issue of AORN Journal. [https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2017/106/1]

"This Back to Basics article addresses the basics of radiation safety and the precautions that perioperative team members should implement in the perioperative setting."

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.05.001]

This featured article describes a comprehensive process developed at New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, "to prepare staff members to care for patients undergoing face transplantation."

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.05.004]

Editor-in-Chief Joy Don Baker provides an overview of the January 2017 issue of the journal, which highlights the upcoming Global Surgical Conference.

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Kelly Putnam shares some highlights from a special report in the February 2017 Periop Briefing, which addresses the question: "How Will Emerging Technologies & Surgical Advances Shape Perioperative Care?" [https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1016/S0001-2092%2817%2930022-4]

Laurie Saletnik, Editor-in-Chief of AORN Journal, shares a few highlights from the December 2017 issue of the journal.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2017/106/6]

This featured continuing education article describes the way that "an interdisciplinary team at a large academic medical center sought to address the exposure of patients and perioperative team members to surgical smoke. "

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This featured article explores the way that "Perioperative leaders and health care providers can help decrease the patient's risk of surgical site infection with proactive preventive practices that break the chain of infection."

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.09.012]

Managing Editor of Periop Briefing Kelly Putnam shares a few highlights from the December 2016 issue.

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Editor-in-Chief of the AORN Journal, Joy Don Baker, explores a few highlights of the October 2017 issue.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2017/106/4]