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What I Saw at AAOS
An update on the latest in autoclavable scopes and cameras and integrated digital OR suites from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.
Gabrielle White, RN, CASC

With 16 surgeons performing more than 3,100 surgical procedures annually in our two-OR orthopedic ASC, we have reached capacity. So, we are planning to add two new ORs, and we want to take this opportunity to offer more services - like pain management, 23-hour post-op care and more complex procedures like single-level cervical discectomies, lumbar discectomies, unicompartmental knee arthroplasties and, possibly, hip arthroplasty. With this in mind, I recently headed off to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) Annual Meeting in San Francisco to evaluate the newest orthopedic surgical products. I focused my efforts on big-ticket items that I think will be important for our new center - namely, autoclavable scopes and cameras and integrated digital OR suites. Here's what I discovered.

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