The Cost of a Surgery Starts Before the First Incision

Before a routine surgery begins, someone has already done a lot of work. They've pulled items from different shelves, checked that nothing is missing, opened what's needed and put back what isn't. On a busy day, they'll do it all again for the next patient.

You run the procedure, and we won't tell you how to do that. We know supply, so this is about what happens before you pick up an instrument.

Where the cost really sits

The price on an invoice is only part of what surgical setup costs a clinic. The rest is easy to miss because it's spread across the week:

• Staff time spent picking and assembling items, when there are fewer people to do it
• Ordering and receiving many separate lines from different suppliers
• Stragglers that sit on a shelf until they expire
• The missing item someone only notices once setup is underway

One idea, carried from one market to another

Our company has been supplying Canadian healthcare since 1991, and surgical packs are an established part of how hospitals work. Veterinary surgery is its own field, with its own procedures and its own demands, and it doesn't need to copy anyone. But the supply problem looked familiar.

Then clinics started asking us about it. With staff harder to find and costs climbing, they wanted an easier way to keep quality and pricing consistent and to make the operating room run more smoothly. So we started building vet packs.

What we build

Our vet packs started as custom builds for large Canadian equine and surgical hospitals. Custom work takes more volume than almost any clinic can use, so we turned what we learned into standard packs that smaller clinics can buy:

• General surgical
• Orthopaedic
• Laparotomy
• A range of equine packs

We won't promise you a savings number, because the answer depends on your clinic: what you do most, who sets up and what you're stocking now. A pack also won't suit every procedure. It's worth a look where you do the same procedure often and set up the same way each time.