.. Objective: To find out reasons for cancellation of operation on the day of surgery in the Surgical Department of Civil Hospital Karachi. Design: Observational study. Setting & Period: All operation theatre bookings of the Civil Hospital Surgical Department from July 2010 to October 2010 have been studied by using the ‘daily operating theatre lists’. Frequency of cancellation, type of surgeri...

Surgical departments are increasingly put under pressure to improve services, cut waiting lists, increase efficiency and save money. At a district general hospital in the west-midlands we approached the challenge of improving efficiency and optimising the services available in our orthopaedic theatres. Data was collected on: anaesthetic start times, operation start and finish times, and reasons...

OBJECTIVE To identify aspects of provision of total joint replacements which could be improved. DESIGN 10 month prospective study of hospital admissions and hospital costs for patients whose total joint replacement was cancelled. SETTING Information and Waiting List Unit, Musgrave Park Regional Orthopaedic Service, Belfast. PATIENTS 284 consecutive patients called for admission for total ...

Background: This study is based on management issues within the healthcare sector in Karachi. Specifically, it focused managing conflicts operation rooms, whereby team performance of Operation Theatre staff directly impacts patients' speedy recovery.
 Methodology: A quantitative survey was conducted involving surgeons and Karachi's community hospitals. closed-ended questionnaire used this ...

AIM This paper, based on the experience of the first author as an expatriate nurse, aims to describe and discuss some aspects of collaboration that contributed to the building of clinical practice when implementing an operating theatre programme in the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) hospitals in Lebanon. BACKGROUND The operation theatre programme lasted for 8 months: 6 months in 2008 a...

In recent years the deleterious effects of environmental noise on human health and work performance has evoked considerable concern (1-3). Prolonged exposure to loud noise in daily life may act as a biological stressor leading to sustained activation of the autonomic nervous system and the pituitary adrenal axis with many far reaching physiological & psychological effects (4). In hospital setti...

Background The ability to review preoperative radiographs during trauma and orthopaedic surgery is essential for the surgeon to provide optimum treatment to the patient. However, due to current information technology (IT) systems, screen-savers frequently interrupt the ability to review images and theatre staff are not routinely available to deactivate the screen-saver. This prolongs theatre ti...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthesiologists became more concerned about ensuring patient safety by a greater emphasis on outcome, quality patient care both in operation theatre and elsewhere in hospital. In the clinical practice, there is no aspect of Anesthesia that occupies a more important place in the safe management of the patients than the accurate drug administration. Medication errors r...