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W
hen the Piedmont Outpatient Surgery Center in
Winston-Salem, N.C., opened in 2012, it didn't have
an ENT image-guided platform. That meant the
center's surgeons had to perform all of their
image-guided sinus surgeries at a nearby hospital-
owned outpatient center.
A couple years later, Administrator Brandi Cunningham, RN, BSN,
BA, MHA, MBA, decided to see what it would take to keep the cases
in her facility. She first made sure the majority of the center's patients
who were sent out for sinus surgery met the criteria to have their pro-
cedures performed at the ASC. They did. She then performed a cost
JoEllen McBride, PhD | Associate Editor
Advances in Image-Guided Sinus Surgery
Enhanced real-time imaging and improved
instrumentation tracking let surgeons operate smarter and safer.
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Martin
J.
Citardi,
MD