Business Segments and Geographic Areas

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2016

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 executive management team) 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:

	2016		2015		2014
Orthopedic surgery	$	370,472	$	388,948	$	402,750
General surgery	341,417		274,190		279,356
Surgical visualization	51,631		56,030		57,949
Consolidated net sales	$	763,520	$	719,168	$	740,055

Net sales information for geographic areas consists of the following:

	2016		2015		2014
United States	$	399,107	$	361,452	$	360,960
Americas (excluding the United States)	87,532		86,867		94,770
Europe, Middle East & Africa	147,985		145,565		158,040
Asia Pacific	128,896		125,284		126,285
Total	$	763,520	$	719,168	$	740,055

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, 2016 and 2015.  No single customer represented over 10% of our consolidated net sales for the years ended December 31, 2016, 2015 and 2014.