Factors Affecting Hand Surgeon Operating Room Turnover Time

Factors affecting graft patency: the operating room and beyond.

Room and Beyond To the Editor: Zacharias and colleagues1 report improved survival with radial artery conduits versus vein graft in coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery with left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending artery, as well as better radial patency. This study reinforces previous findings demonstrating superior patency of arterial conduits over vein grafts. Nonethel...

Operating room utilization and turnover behavioral study

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Surgeon profiling: a key to optimum operating room use.

HYPOTHESIS A high-efficiency Pod, composed of 3 parallel-processing operating rooms (ORs) and a dedicated 3-bed miniature postanesthesia care unit, can be filled with surgeons capable of converting time saved from parallel processing into incremental volume. DESIGN Statistical and mathematical modeling. SETTING Academic medical center with 52 serial-processing ORs, 1 parallel-processing OR,...

Direct Surgeon Control of the Computer in the Operating Room

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a joystick-like device that allows direct surgeon control of the computer in the operating room. The device contains no electronic parts, is easy to use, is unobtrusive, has no physical connection to the computer, and makes use of an existing surgical tool. The device was tested in comparison to a mouse and to verbal dictation.

Impact of an Electronic Health Record Operating Room Management System on Documentation Time, Surgical Volume, Operating Room Turnover Time and Staffing in Ophthalmology