W
hen outfitting an OR for total joints, you want to
standardize the room and streamline its contents
as much as possible. This means designing and
furnishing each OR identically, from the X-ray risers
on the OR tables, to the positioning equipment
that you store in each suite, to the suture and the saw blades, to the
tables that can twist and turn every which way. This means convinc-
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Equipping Your Total Joints OR
University
Orthopedics
Center,
Altoona,
Pa.
• CENTERPIECE By far, the most important piece of equipment in a total joint room is the OR table.
How to furnish your room in style —
from the equipment to the instruments to the supplies.
Kate Gillespie, MBA, RN, NE-BC,
and Carol Childress, RN, BSN, CNOR
Voorhees, N.J.
