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Business Segments and Geographic Areas
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Business Segments and Geographic Areas
Business Segments and Geographic Areas
    
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:
 
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
Orthopedic surgery
$
388,948

 
$
402,750

 
$
410,171

General surgery
274,190

 
279,356

 
286,747

Surgical visualization
56,030

 
57,949

 
65,786

Consolidated net sales
$
719,168

 
$
740,055

 
$
762,704



Net sales information for geographic areas consists of the following:
 
 
2015
 
2014
 
2013
 
 
 
 
 
 
United States
$
361,452

 
$
360,960

 
$
375,473

Canada
57,629

 
63,686

 
73,457

United Kingdom
26,703

 
30,496

 
28,471

Japan
37,809

 
37,230

 
36,705

Australia
33,810

 
38,711

 
38,752

All other countries
201,765

 
208,972

 
209,846

Total
$
719,168

 
$
740,055

 
$
762,704



Sales are attributed to countries based on the location of the customer. There were no significant investments in long-lived assets located outside the United States at December 31, 2015 and 2014.  No single customer represented over 10% of our consolidated net sales for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013.