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Manager's Guide to Surgery's Hottest Trends - April 2015

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A P R I L 2 0 1 5 O U T P A T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T 3 9 I mage guidance and enhanced CT scans have made patient care more per- sonalized and precise, says Clare Tempany-Afdhal, MD, BAO, BCh, profes- sor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and chair of radiology research at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. But will working with near- real-time images of patients' anatomy become the standard of care? "Of course," she says, as if the question is rhetorical. "It's inevitable. We're eventual- ly going to have high-performance imaging platforms everywhere." Some surgeons who perform intricate procedures already think state-of-the- art imaging is essential, and seek out facilities that realize imaging's future The Very Real Benefits of Real-Time Imaging Working with constantly updated pictures of anatomy allows for safer, more efficient surgery. Daniel Cook Executive Editor z SET UP FOR SUCCESS Complex spine procedures are never easy, but real-time imaging reduces some of the challenge. Alan Villavicencio, MD

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