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Fine-tuning Your Procedure Packs
By paying close attention to what goes into - and what stays out of - your packs, you can save your surgery center time and money.
Lori Robertson, RN, CNOR

For many surgical centers, procedure packs are a great way to maximize efficiency. Instead of handpicking items such as drapes and table set-ups off of the supply room shelves, everything you'll need for a case is prepackaged and ready to go. What can be better? But a pack that either has too little or too much of what you need can cancel out any economic and efficiency gains. I'm going to show you how to fine-tune your packs so that you get them just right.

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