Surgeons can safely reduce cost of surgical procedures

The experience of surgeons is that in most if not all instances, the number of instruments used in performance of a given procedure is a fraction of those opened at the beginning of the case. In the article “Data analysis of vascular surgery instrument trays Yields large cost and efficiency savings,” Knowles et al1Knowles M. Gay S.S. Konchan S.K. Mendes R. Rath S. Deshpande V. et al.Data analysis of vascular surgery instrument trays yields large...