Articles: operative.
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Pre-operative screening is a high volume task consuming time and resource. Streamlining patient flow by gathering information in advance reduces costs, optimises resources and diminishes patient burden whilst maintaining safety of care. ⋯ Implementation of PACMAN resulted in a 73.1% reduction in pre-operative in-PCs at our hospital. Given the increasing pressure on healthcare systems globally, we suggest developing further optimisation and integration of smart triage solutions into the pre-operative process.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Nov 2024
A Qualitative Study of the Work Systems and Culture Around End-of-Day Intraoperative Anesthesia Handoffs in a Tertiary Care Center.
Intraoperative handoffs have been implicated as a contributing factor in many perioperative adverse events. Despite conflicting data around their impact on perioperative outcomes, they remain a vulnerable point in the perioperative system with significant attention focused on improving them. This study aimed to understand the processes in place surrounding the point of information transfer in intraoperative handoffs. ⋯ Handoffs involve processes beyond the point of information transfer and are embedded in the systems and culture of the operating rooms. These considerations are important when seeking to improve the quality of intraoperative handoffs.