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Save the date! CEO Roundtable + CFO/CIO Roundtable — November 18-19, 2015 — Chicago. Please call 800-417-2035 to register. 92 The operating room is not impervious to the pressures of the current healthcare environment — one in which improving efficiency and reducing cost are critical for healthcare providers to thrive. To streamline processes and cut costs, many healthcare providers have tackled the task of reducing clinical variation. Across the care continuum, operating rooms provide great opportunity for reducing variation by implementing the use of surgical systems. Revision total knee arthroplasties represent one of many procedures that can be made more efficient through the use of a system. Revision total knee arthroplasty is the replacement of the previous failed total knee prosthesis with a new prosthesis. The procedure requires extensive preoperative planning, specialized implants, prolonged operating times and mastery of difficult surgical techniques. Medical device manufacturer DJO Surgical offers the Exprt™ Precision System: Revision Knee to boost the efficiency of this complex procedure. The comprehensive two-tray system was designed by DJO Surgical engineers along with a team of design surgeons including the three participants in this roundtable. The following discussion, sponsored by DJO Surgical, was edited lightly for length and clarity. How Revision Knee Surgery Systems Can Improve OR Efficiency and Costs By Shannon Barnet James A. Browne, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon (Charlottesville, Va.) Michael J. Taunton, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon (Rochester, Minn.) O r t h o p e d i c SURGEON ROUNDTABLE C. Lowry Barnes, MD, Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Sur- gery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock) 92