...A. Overview: 1Q23 was a phenomenal qtr. where pretty much everything went better than expected. 1. Due to this momentum, Co. is significantly raising full-year top and bottom-line outlook. a. 2. Yet again, ZBH team delivered beyond expectations. a. Proud of what this team is doing to navigate an environment, that while improving, it's still fluid and it presents Co. with challenges that seem like daily challenges. b. Together, living the ZBH mission to alleviate pain and improve the quality of life for people worldwide. B. 1Q23 Performance: Coming into the year, Co.'s guidance assumed that 1Q would have the easiest comp of the year, but would also experience some headwinds from both staffing and COVID-related challenges that it felt would put pressure on elective procedures during the qtr. 1. Co. assumed that there would be pretty high-level of supply pressure in 1Q. a. b. Assumptions also believed that all three of the aforementioned headwind variables would then improve throughout the...
