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Business Segments
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segments
Business Segments
We are accounting and reporting for our business as a single operating segment entity engaged in the development, manufacturing and sale on a global basis of surgical devices and related equipment. Our chief operating decision maker (the CEO) evaluates the various global product portfolios on a net sales basis and evaluates profitability, investment and cash flow metrics on a consolidated worldwide basis due to shared infrastructure and resources.
Our product lines consist of orthopedic surgery, general surgery and surgical visualization. Orthopedic surgery consists of sports medicine instrumentation and small bone, large bone and specialty powered surgical instruments and service fees related to the promotion and marketing of sports medicine allograft tissue. General surgery consists of a complete line of endo-mechanical instrumentation for minimally invasive laparoscopic and gastrointestinal procedures, a line of cardiac monitoring products as well as electrosurgical generators and related instruments. Surgical visualization consists of imaging systems for use in minimally invasive orthopedic and general surgery procedures including 2DHD and 3DHD vision technologies. These product lines' net sales are as follows:
 
Three Months Ended September 30,
 
Nine Months Ended September 30,
 
2015
 
2014
 
2015
 
2014
 
 
 


 
 
 


Orthopedic surgery
$
89,382

 
$
92,750

 
$
284,781

 
$
301,059

General surgery
66,123

 
69,735

 
203,295

 
203,941

Surgical visualization
13,679

 
12,476

 
40,075

 
40,052

Consolidated net sales
$
169,184

 
$
174,961

 
$
528,151

 
$
545,052