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46 COVER STORY
The Future of Knee Repair
Could meniscal replacement, stem cell
technology and custom-made implants
restore battered knees to like-new condition?
David Bernard | Senior Associate Editor
56 Opportunities in Outpatient Trauma
How orthopedic ASCs can handle walk-in
fracture care and other same-day trauma.
Ronald Bullock
62 Your Guide to Orthopedic Power Tools
Give your surgeons what they want
with smaller, stronger and smarter options.
Stephan Pill, MD, MSPT
70 Practical Pearls for Surface Disinfection
Deploy the proper cleaning agents to
eradicate infective agents on your surfaces.
Thomas Durick, MD
77 Reduce Your Radiation Exposure
Don't ignore the very real
threats of what you can't see.
Brad Waddell, MD
83 Squeaky Clean Surgical Instruments
Pearls and pointers from a sterile
processing department that disinfects
tens of thousands of trays a year.
Mark Voigt
94 First, Do No Harm
Practical steps you can take today
to keep your patients out of harm's way.
Kendal Gapinski | Associate Editor
104 Out of the Closet and Into the Cloud
Tips for cloud computing success.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
110 Why Settle for Unsafe Airway Management?
Video laryngoscopes turn challenging
intubations into routine procedures.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
117 Post-op Pain in 2016
Our reader survey shows continued
migration from opioids, toward multimodal.
Jim Burger | Associate Editor
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