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The Future of Knee Repair - February 2016 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 6 • O U T PA T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T • 2 3 • Training exercises. Sometimes supplies fall on the floor, or some- one opens the wrong item, or a surgery that's set up is canceled at the last minute. Once the sterility of supplies is compromised, you have to toss them: What a waste of supplies, and your supply budget, right? Not if you save these sup- plies for use in training exercises, in-services or drills. As an additional bonus, you won't have to open and waste more sterile packages for those education efforts. • Towels for turnovers. The blue towels that surgeons use to dry off after scrub- bing in come in sterile packs of 5, but when only 1 gets used during a case, the rest are discarded as contaminated. If they're not all used before the patient is rolled into the room, why not save them for cleaning your ORs and equipment? It'll save you the expense of buying similar supplies for surface disinfection and termi- nal cleaning. Share your great idea for saving time or money at ideas@outpatientsurgery.net.

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