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36 COVER STORY
Does Your Paycheck Match
Your Purchasing Power?
A surgical facility leader's salary should
reflect the capital equipment budgets you
manage and the buying decisions you make.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
54 Select the Right Compounding Pharmacy
Be sure you're working with a pharmacy that
shares your commitment to keeping patients safe.
Brielle Gregory | Associate Editor
63 Catch DVT If You Can
Deep vein thrombosis is completely treatable
if caught in time, but the symptoms aren't
always easy to spot.
Joseph A. Caprini, MD, MS, FACS, RVT
71 Tips for Safer Trendelenburg Positioning
Keep patients safe and secure during
head-down tilting positions during surgery.
Outpatient Surgery Editors
81 How Far Will Single-Use Instruments Go?
On-demand, one-and-done disposable devices
can relieve your instrument backlogs —
and you don't have to reprocess them.
Joe Madsen | Associate Editor
88 No More No-Shows
Tips to prevent cancelled cases and empty ORs.
Anna Merriman | Associate Editor
95 What's New in
Cataract Extraction Technology
new devices and tweaks to current ones aim
to make cataract surgery so easy even a
reporter can do it.
Joe Madsen | Associate Editor
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