Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information

14. Segment Information

The company's management considers its business to be a single segment entity — the manufacture and sale of medical devices. The company's products generally share similar distribution channels and customers. The company designs, manufactures, packages, distributes and sells medical, surgical, diagnostic and patient care devices. The company sells a broad range of products to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care health facilities and alternate site facilities on a global basis. In general, the company's products are intended to be used once and then discarded or implanted either temporarily or permanently. The company's chief operating decision makers evaluate the various global product portfolios on a net sales basis. The company's chief operating decision makers generally evaluate profitability and associated investments on an enterprise-wide basis due to shared geographic infrastructures. Net sales based on the location of the external customer and identifiable assets by geographic region for the following years ended December 31 are:

(dollars in millions)	2011		2010		2009
Net sales
United States	$	1,956.0	$	1,889.0	$	1,759.2
Europe		514.1		474.8		471.7
Japan		142.8		131.9		126.5
Other		283.5		224.5		177.5
	$	2,896.4	$	2,720.2	$	2,534.9
Long-lived assets
United States	$	390.8	$	362.0	$	339.7
Europe		52.5		43.1		55.4
Other		14.2		11.0		8.8
	$	457.5	$	416.1	$	403.9

Total net sales by disease state for the following years ended December 31 are:

	2011		2010		2009
(dollars in millions)
Vascular	$	842.4	$	755.9	$	681.5
Urology		734.8		718.1		700.3
Oncology		779.5		724.8		678.7
Surgical Specialties		450.0		434.6		387.8
Other		89.7		86.8		86.6
	$	2,896.4	$	2,720.2	$	2,534.9