From the Show Floor: What I Saw at AORN

Capital Equipment; Disposal; Fluid control; Patient transfer, surfaces and positioning; Gloves and hand care; Patient monitoring; Lighting; Sterilization, disinfection, reprocessing; Instruments and supplies; Drapes and gowns; Miscellaneous; Action Positioning Pads; Aesculap/BBraun; Alcon; Anesthesia; Ansell's Gammex Surefit; Aqua-Box; Arthroscopy Drape; Association; Autosense; BD; Bariatric; Barrier Fluid Protection AAMI; Bemis; Biogel Eclipse; Buying; Color Touch; CompView Medical's Nu-Boom; Congress; Davol's Action Positioning Pads; DeRoyal; DeRoyal's Aqua-Box; DeRoyal's Puddle Guppy; Devon/Tyco; Disposable Scalpels. DeRoyal; Drape; E-Line Ultrathin Semi-rigid Uteroscope; Eclipse; Endosurgery; Endure; Equipment I; Ethicon Endosurgery; Ethicon's Proceed Mesh; Express; Fluid Protection AAMI; Gammex Surefit; Gown Recognition; Guppy; Healthcare's Endure; Hercules; Hoverchair; Hovertech; Infrared; Instant Gown Recognition; IonFusion; KC's Instant Gown Recognition; Kendall; Kimberly-Clark; Knee Arthroscopy Drape; LCD; Made; Medical; Medical's Nu-Boom; Medline; Medline's Proxima; Mega Power; Megadyne's; Mesh; Microtek; Molnlycke; Nu-Boom; NuBoom; Nurses Congress; OR, Skytron; Olympic Medical; Omnicell Color Touch; OptiFlex SS; Orleans; Outpatient Surgery; Pads; Plume Safe Autosense; Positioning Pads; Power; PrimeLine; Proceed Mesh; Protected Disposable Scalpels. DeRoyal; Protection AAMI; Proxima; Puddle Guppy; Quick-Drain System; Recognition; Registered Nurses Congress; Reupholstering; SCD Express; SCD. Richard Wolf's; SS; Safe Autosense; Scalpels. DeRoyal; Semi-rigid Uteroscope; Series; Skytron; SmartBins; Surefit; Surge Medical; Surgery; Swiffer; Syntegra; System; TT; Thinking; TotalLifter; Touch; Tray; Ultrathin Semi-rigid Uteroscope; Uteroscope; Vac-Pac; Wolf's; Z-Flo; ability; absorbent; accepts; accessory; accommodate; accurate; activate; adaptor; add; additional; adhesive; adjustability; adjusts; advanced; aimed; air; alcohol-based; all-important; amount; anesthesia; angled; antimicrobial; areas; arm; articulation; aspirator; automate; automatically; back; band; bar; bariatric; barrier; based; battery-powered; bed; bi-polar; bio-inert; biohazardous; blade; blades; blankets; blood; blue; body; bolted; boom; bottom; brush; built; bump; bundle; cabinet; cabinet-based; cabinets; called; calls; candy; cane; canister; cannulated; capability; capacity; capturing; carbon; case; cataract; category; centralized; cents; chair; chance; channel; chemicals; choice; claims; clean; cleaning; clear; click; clip; clog; closes; coag; code; collar; color-coded; combines; comfortable; company; compatible; complete; components; compression; comprised; conditioners; connections; connectors; consignment; consumables; container; containment; continue; continuous; control; controlled; convenient; conventional; corners; cost; count; counter; counts; creates; creating; cuff; current; custom; cut; cutting; cycles; damage; day's; days; deal; debuted; dedicated; deep; deliver; deployed; design; designed; detachable; detect; devices; diabetic; difficult; dip; directly; discomfort; dispenser; dispenses; dispensing; displaced; display; displays; disposable; disposal; dispose; dissatisfied; document; downward; drain; drape; drawer; due; ease; easier; easily; easy; easy-to-open; edge; effect; efficiency; electrode; electronically; electrosurgical; eliminating; emerge; endoscope; enhances; enhancing; ensure; entry; essentially; evacuation; evacuators; exercise; exhibit; exit; expensively; exposed; exposure; external; extra-large; facility; fact; fast; feature; feel; felt; female; fewer; fiber; field; filled; fills; filter-processing; filterless; filters; finish; firm; firsthand; fit; fits; flexible; floor; flow; fluid; fluid-collection; fluid-control; fluid-repellent; flushing; foot; found; friend; full; fully; fused; future; garment; gave; gel; general; glove; gloves; goal; good; gown; gowns; gravity; greater; green; gross; half; hall; hamper; hand; handle; hands; handy; hang; height; helps; hernia; high-density; high-grade; high-tech; highly; hinder; hold; idea; impervious; implants; important; impregnated; impressed; improve; inches; include; including; incorporate; increase; increasing; individually; inflatable; inflate; ingenious; inserting; insertion; inside; instrument; insufficient; integrated; interchangeable; interior; internal; introduced; inventory; irrigation; irritation; issued; keyboard; kits; labeled; lack; large; larger; largest; latch; latex; latex-free; left; left-handed; lens-like; level; lid; lids; lifting; light; limited; line; liner; lint; lip; liquid; list; loads; location; locks; long-term; longer; loosen; lose; lot; lowered; luer; lumens; made; maintain; make; making; male; manage; management; managers; maneuverable; manifold; manufactured; manufacturing; market; material; matte; mattresses; means; mechanical; med; medication; meds; meet; meeting; mesh; metal; microspheres; microsurgical; middle; miles; minimal; minimizes; minutes; mode; model; moderate; modes; moisture's; moisturizers; mold; monofilament; motion; motion-activated; mount; move; moving; neat; neatest; necessitate; necrosis; needed; newest; nice; noise; non-reinforced; nurses; nursing; o'clock; obese; object; occur; older; one-handed; open; opening; opens; operating; ophthalmic; optical; optional; options; organized; original; orthopedic; ounces; outer; oval; packaged; pad; pads; page; par; parts; patent-pending; patient; patients; pedal; pedestal-and-boom; pedometer; pencil; people; percent; perform; periOperative; persistent; pick; picking; piece; plastic; pliable; plug; points; polymer; polyproplene; poor; pop; population; port; pose; position; positioners; positioning; post-case; pounds; powder-free; power; power-setting; practically; pre-op; pre-vacuum; preference; pressures; prevent; preventing; prevention; previous; price; prints; problem; procedure; procedures; product; products; proprietary; protection; protective; protein-free; provide; provider; providing; pump; purchases; pure; purple; purpose; push; quartz; quick; quickly; radiolucent; range; rapid; rated; raw; reach; reaching; reactions; readings; real-time; reasons; recall; recent; recently; recliner; reconciliation; red; reduce; reducing; regular; reinforced; released; releases; remaining; reminded; removal; remove; reorder; repair; replaced; replenishment; reprocessing; resulting; retails; retractable; retrofit; return; reusable; reuse; ring; risk; rod; room; rubberized; running; safe; safely; safety; sanitary; scalpel; scalpel-like; scan; scanner; scanning; scope; scrape; screen; screens; screws; scroll; scrub; seal; sealed; seals; seam; seat; seconds; secure; seeking; select; sensitivity; sensors; settings; sewer; shape; sharp; shorter; show; showed; side; silent; simple; simply; single; size; sized; sizes; skin; sleeve; slide; smooth; soft; software; space; specially; specialty; specific; specifically; spent; sponge; springs; square; stability; staff; stainless; standard-weight; station; stay; steam; steel; step; sterile; sterility; sterilization; sterilize; sticky; stirrups; stocking; stop; storage; streamlining; strength; stretcher; strong; studies; styrene-isoprene-styrene; suction; supplies; supply; support; surface; surgeons; surgical; survey; swing-open; switching; synthetic; system; table; tabletop; tamper-evident; temperatures; tend; tension; textured; thermal; thicker; thin; things; thinner; thought; thrombosis; tickets; time; times; tiny; tip; told; top; total; touching; touchless; transactions; transfer; transport; tray; treat; treated; tube; turbo; type; typically; underside; unique; unit; updated; urethrane; utility; vacuum; validated; valve; vapor; vein; ventral; vinyl; virtually; visible; walking; wall; wand; warning; waste; water; weighs; weight; weight.The; wider; wire; work; worried; year's; yellow; zoned