Impairment Of Goodwill	3 Months Ended
Apr. 01, 2012
Impairment Of Goodwill [Abstract]
Impairment Of Goodwill	Note 4 — Impairment of goodwill As we disclosed in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, we have changed our internal business unit reporting structure and related internal financial reporting effective January 1, 2012 and changed from six reporting units to ten reporting units. The change included converting our current North America business, which is one of the four operating segments, from one reporting unit into five reporting units. As a result, we allocated the assets and liabilities of the North America segment to the new reporting units based on the operating activities of the new reporting units, and then allocated goodwill among the reporting units using a relative fair value approach as required by ASC 350. The fair value of each reporting unit was determined by a weighted combination of (i) estimation of the discounted cash flows of each of the reporting units based on projected earnings in the future (the income approach) and (ii) analysis of sales of similar assets in actual transactions (the market approach). Following this allocation, we were required to perform goodwill impairment tests on these new reporting units in the first quarter of 2012. As a result of these tests, we determined that three of the reporting units in the North America operating segment were impaired, and we recorded goodwill impairment charges of $220 million in the Vascular reporting unit, $107 million in the Anesthesia/Respiratory reporting unit and $5 million in the Cardiac reporting unit in the first quarter of 2012.

Note 4 — Impairment of goodwill

As we disclosed in our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, we have changed our internal business unit reporting structure and related internal financial reporting effective January 1, 2012 and changed from six reporting units to ten reporting units. The change included converting our current North America business, which is one of the four operating segments, from one reporting unit into five reporting units. As a result, we allocated the assets and liabilities of the North America segment to the new reporting units based on the operating activities of the new reporting units, and then allocated goodwill among the reporting units using a relative fair value approach as required by ASC 350. The fair value of each reporting unit was determined by a weighted combination of (i) estimation of the discounted cash flows of each of the reporting units based on projected earnings in the future (the income approach) and (ii) analysis of sales of similar assets in actual transactions (the market approach).

Following this allocation, we were required to perform goodwill impairment tests on these new reporting units in the first quarter of 2012. As a result of these tests, we determined that three of the reporting units in the North America operating segment were impaired, and we recorded goodwill impairment charges of $220 million in the Vascular reporting unit, $107 million in the Anesthesia/Respiratory reporting unit and $5 million in the Cardiac reporting unit in the first quarter of 2012.