THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY S. P. F. Hughes, MS, FRCS, FRCS Ed(Orth), Head of the Division of Surgery, Anaesthetics and Intensive Care Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF, UK. F. M. Anderson, FRCPath, Consultant Microbiologist Department of Microbiology, St Helier Hospital, Wrythe Lane, Carsh...

Historically anaesthetists employed only their senses to monitor patients during the conduct of anaesthesia. Recent developments have made the continuous watching of patient, devices, and every instrumental display virtually impossible. Hearing is an essential communication channel between instrument and user. The human auditory system responds most to the timing of sound stimuli so that a tran...

The skills of the anaesthetist are requested more frequently in different locations of the hospital outside the operating room. With rapid developments in medicine, there has been a proliferation in the number of procedures performed by nonsurgical physicians. Procedures may be uncomfortable or have severe complications. The anaesthetist's role is important to the safety and comfort of the pati...

Objectives The operating room is a place of surgical intervention with its accompanying bodily and cognitive strain on the performers. Stress in the operating room may lead to the onset of central serous chorioretinopathy as reported hereby in a retina surgeon and is labeled as operating room central serous chorioretinopathy. Methods The same operator performed the optical coherence tomograph...

Purpose – This paper aims to identify key factors that impact operating room (OR) utilization and evaluate different scenarios on OR performance. Design/methodology/approach – Five months of data were collected. stepwise regression and best subset models were used to select factors and generate regression model for OR utilization. We further used simulation to test the influence of case duratio...

Background and Objectives: Fire is an inherent and permanent risk in the operating room and the prevention of it in the operating room require awareness of risks and effective communication between its staffs. Thus the purpose of this study is to determine the awareness and the practice of the operating room staff about fire prevention and to determine the effectiveness of safe...

This article describes the author’s experience of using TEX for typesetting the Anaesthesia Record as part of an automated data-collection system developed for use in the operating theatre.

Lean principles and statistical analysis have been successfully implemented to hospitals and healthcare systems. These principles among other process improvement principles aim to detect and eliminate wastes in the system and its processes. In this paper, lean and statistical analysis were applied to systematically investigate the causes of low operating room (OR) block utilization and recommen...