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4. Pupil expanders. Nothing slows a case to a crawl more than a pupil that won't dilate. Fortunately, there's no short- age of pupil expanders that keep small pupils open dur- ing surgery: Malyugin rings, iris hooks (retractors) and compounded Shugarcaine. "Using the pupil expander has been the difference between a hard case and one that the surgeon has greater visibility of the lens and ease of removal," says Ms. Haskell. Dr. Weston says Shugarcaine works well for small pupils. "I think it's immoral to pay $450 for something you squirt in the bottle that does at best no better," he says. "We use a Malyugin ring or a combination of phenyle- phrine and lidocaine that we have compounded," says Jennifer Brooks, RN, manager of the Virginia Beach (Va.) Eye Center. 5. Stretcher chairs. Many eye centers shave valuable min- utes off their case times by keeping patients on the same eye cart or stretcher chair throughout the perioperative process, thereby bypassing the need to transfer patients onto and off of the OR bed. "The patient starts and has sur- gery on the same cart," says Ms. Koppinger. A key benefit of the powered surgical chair is that you don't have to attach and reattach patient monitoring equipment, says Jody Looker, RN, CNOR, director of the Eye Surgery Center of Winchester (Va.). "We mount the patient monitor directly onto the stretcher so we never 1 1 9 M A Y 2 0 1 5 | O U T P A T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T medical Patient Focused. Eco Friendly. KPHQ"QROCTMUEQOr www.opmarks.com yDurableVXîFLHQWO\SHUPDQHQWIRU XSWRGD\V yVisible on all skin tonestZKLWH EDFNJURXQGSURYLGHVKLJKYLVLELOLW\ yEasily removedSRVWRSZLWKWUDQVSRUH WDSHRUDOFRKROSDG yCan be written onWRFRXQWHUVLJQVLWH PDUNVLQFUHDVLQJYLVLELOLW\DQGHDVH RIUHPRYDO Also available: Tat Stamps Ideal for ophthalmic, pediatric & elderly site marking simple site marking solutions Contact Op-marks Medical for free sample or additional information P

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