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Your guide to orthopedic power tools. Give your surgeons what they want with smaller, stronger and smarter options.

Infection Prevention: 5 bad infection habits to break. These common practices might do more harm than good to your patients.

Opportunities in outpatient trauma. How orthopedic ASCs can handle walk-in fracture care and other same-day trauma.

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Safety: How safe are your medication practices? Reduce the risk of errors by reinforcing these 6 practice improvements.

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The future of knee repair. Could meniscal replacement, stem cell technology and custom-made implants restore battered knees to like-new condition?

GERD treatments move forward, but will you get paid? The new CPT code is here, but you may have to battle with payers.

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Post-op pain in 2016. Our reader survey shows continued migration from opioids, toward multimodal.

Squeaky clean surgical instruments. Pearls and pointers from a sterile processing department that disinfects tens of thousands of trays a year.

Editor's Page: cures for creaky knees. Can new techniques restore battered knees to like-new condition?