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Contents
4 Adapt or Be Left Behind
Follow these 5 trends to
prepare for surgery's exciting future.
Mark A. Talamini, MD, MBA
8 Skyrocketing Demand
For Outpatient Surgery
Focus on cost containment, convenience and
clinical advancements to capitalize on the
exponential growth of case volumes.
Zeev N. Kain, MD, MBA, FAAP
18 Are You Fully Invested in Patient Safety?
The movement toward value-based reimburse-
ment makes positive outcomes more
economically important than ever before.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
27 Can We End Cross-Contamination?
Shoot for zero healthcare infections by focusing on
these 3 overlooked sources of recontamination.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
36 Rise of the Robot
Market competition and specialty-specific
platforms will make robotic-assisted surgery
commonplace.
Brielle Gregory | Associate Editor
46 What Will the Future
Of Surgery Look Like?
Virtual and augmented reality promises
to transform how surgery is planned,
performed and promoted.
Rafael Grossmann, MD
52 Can We Eliminate Post-Op Pain?
Tailoring analgesic efforts to individual patients
and developing techniques and technologies hold
promise for a less painful future.
Brielle Gregory | Associate Editor
57 Your Surgeons Won't Believe Their Eyes
Big screens and crystal clear, lifelike images will
be mainstays in the operating room of the future.
Bill Donahue | Contributing Editor
66 It's Time to Get Excited About What's Next
Q&A with Thomas Frey, futurist and revolutionary
thinker about tomorrow's possibilities.
To Our Readers
Surgical facility leaders have repeatedly proven quite adept at
adapting to technological advances, even when it entails some
bumps (EMRs) and bruises (HD) along the way. You know that if you stand still in the ever-evolving world of surgery, you'll
watch the world pass you by. The Manager's Guide to Megatrends in Surgery will provide you with a glimpse into the future
so that you can prepare for what's coming rather than reacting to it once it's already here. Embracing new ideas like
autonomous surgical robots and virtual reality might be difficult, but staying current on new developments in surgical care
will position your facility to ride the momentum of change into the OR of tomorrow.
Cover design by Ethan Anderson | Photo courtesy of Medical Realities
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