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Archive > October, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 10

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Former Sales Rep Busted in Scope Thefts

No More Feeling Around for Pedals
Tech's Invention a Time-saver for Cataract Surgeons
A surgical tech has invented and patented a Plexiglas platform with Velcro straps that holds phaco machine and wireless microscope pedals in the surgeon's preferred position during surgery. Travis Kirgan says he was inspired to create the Pedal Glide when one of his surgeons at the Physicians' Eye Surgery Center in Charleston, S.C., remarked how tiresome it was to have to feel under the stretcher with his feet for the pedals. Wouldn't it be nice, he said, if you could mount the pedals to something so they'd always be there under the table together?

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