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Increasing operating room throughput.
To the Editor:—We read with interest the article by Smith et al., and we congratulate the authors on increasing both major joint arthroplasty throughput and profitability by implementing a parallel processing system. In their model, the authors describe the anesthesia induction room as either an “underutilized operating room (OR)” or “a shared induction area bed space.” If at all possible, howe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anesthesiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0003-3022
DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e3181987001