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FEATURES
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Could 3D Printing
Revolutionize Surgery?
Now you can strategize with an
exact replica before you operate.
Axel Krieger, PhD
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Bug Zapper
Room-disinfection robots shoot beams
of ultraviolet light to reduce the bacterial
count on surfaces you might have missed.
Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha, DO
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Intravenous Innovations
Start IVs with vein-finding technology
and safety catheters.
Nancy L. Moureau, RN, BSN, CRNI, CPUI
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Eyeing the Potential
Of Laser Cataract Surgery
Improved outcomes might lead to more
widespread use of the game-changing
technology.
James Salz, MD
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Why 3D Still Matters
Depth perception brings several
advantages to surgical imaging.
Gerald L. Andriole, MD
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Making Sense of Cloud Computing
The cloud can mobilize your facility, but keep
your surgeons and staff on the same page.
Abraham Whaley
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Multimodal's Multiple Benefits
There are plenty of ways to reduce
opioid use when controlling post-op pain.
Jim Burger | Associate Editor
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Better Than High Definition?
Ultra HD is poised to become the latest
technology that revolutionizes what surgeons
see.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
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The View From Inside
For colonoscopy, good
visualization is getting better.
Seth A. Gross, MD, FACG, FASGE
Outpatient Knee
Gains Momentum
Patients want to go home the day of
surgery. Why not let them?
Jeffrey G. Mokris, MD
April 2014 | www.outpatientsurgery.net
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Surgery's Hottest Trends
Manager's Guide to
There's no shortage of new products, techniques and technology that promise to revolutionize surgery. For the
Manager's Guide to Surgery's Hottest Trends, we talked to a host of experts who have their fingers on the pulse of sur-
gical innovation to find out which developments are truly buzzworthy. Check out the following pages, where they dis-
cuss difference-making developments that will shape the future and keep your facility on the cutting edge of care.
Cover design by Ethan Anderson | Photo by Stephen Bobb Photography
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April 2014
3D Printing
HOTTEST
TRENDS
MANAGER'S
GUIDE
TO
SURGERY'S
This model heart will
transform how surgeons work.
Total knees,
totally outpatient
Ultra HD's
eye-popping images
Disinfecting whole
rooms at a time
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