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opportunity to provide surgeons with
4K images that burst off the screen in
deep colorful hues was too tempting to
resist. But
for Aurora
Health Care,
a surgery
center in
Burlington,
Wis., the
need to han-
dle a broad range of specialties led to
an integrated high-definition-based sys-
tem that addresses everyone's needs. If
you're building, expanding or updating
your ORs, learn from these facilities'
experiences to find the system that
works best for you and your surgeons.
Consider the options
There's no question that 4K, with reso-
lution that's 4 times greater than that
of high-definition, provides a wow fac-
tor — and many are convinced that it
leads, or will lead, to better outcomes.
But if cameras and monitors aren't com-
patible, the benefits of having a 4K mon-
itor will be negligible.
"The technology will be fine once all
laparoscopic cameras are 4K-compati-
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• SHARPER IMAGE Robert Zehr, MD, assisted by Mark Cannedy,
CST, enjoys the benefits of 4K imaging during a knee arthroscopy
performed at Seaside Surgery Center in Naples, Fla.
Not a day goes
by that we're
not thrilled to
have 4K here.
— Cindy Schuetz, RN
