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Archive > April, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 4

How to Outfit Your New Eye OR

Four new ORs helped my surgery center add cases and surgeons to a maxed-out caseload.

Marnix Heersink, MD

Here at our surgery center in Dothan, Ala., cataract surgeons used to operate out of 2 ORs from 6 in the morning until 7 at night to handle the daily caseload. Since we couldn't add additional procedures or surgeons, we decided to triple the size of our clinical space by adding 4 ORs filled with refurbished surgical microscopes, state-of-the-art phaco machines and vitrectomy systems. Here's what we learned while hunting for the new equipment.

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