access to the patient and surgical site. Attachments should be
ergonomic, provide excellent stability and be engineered to support
today's heavier patients. Ideally, they should have a flexible design
that allows for on-the-fly positioning changes.
Also keep your staff's safety in mind. Powered options ease mid-pro-
cedure positioning and limit risk of injury to members of the surgical
team. Although newer designs are constructed with lightweight mate-
rials, specially designed carts that ease the moving and storing of the
equipment are, in my mind, well worth the investment. OSM
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Ms. Ingle (lynne.ingle@gbainc.com) is a project manager
at Gene Burton and Associates in Las Vegas, Nev.
