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COVER STORY
Time for a Raise?
Our 2012 salary survey
shows surgical facility
leaders are long overdue for a pay hike.
Proudly serving hospital, ASC and
office-based surgical facility leaders for 13 years.
Stephanie Wasek
Features Editor
January 2013 | Vol. XVI, No. 1
www.outpatientsurgery.net
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Technology for
Smoother IV Starts
Increase first-stick success with
safety catheters and vein finders.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
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Demystifying Surgical Video
All you need to know about 6
emerging display features.
Nate Pinkney
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5 New Products for
Better Hernia Repair
The latest in mesh, positioning
tools and fixation options.
David Bernard | Senior Associate Editor
5 Ways to Faster Cataracts 104
Think maintaining efficiency in
a surgery center is tough?
Try doing it in a hospital.
Dewight Davis, RN, CNOR
Smoke Evacuation
Success Stories
Clearing the air, for safety's sake.
David Bernard | Senior Associate Editor
114 Real Sharps Injuries,
Real Solutions
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Check out the lessons learned
from these real-life accidents.
Donna Ford, MSN, RN-BC, CNOR
126 Are Your
Instruments Really Sterile?
They are if you understand how
indicators work and what
sterilizer printouts say.
Nancy Chobin, RN, AAS, ACSP, CSPDM
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O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | J A N U A R Y 2013
Cover design by Ethan Anderson
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