NORA: Where do we go from here? Six clinical challenges for the future

Over the past 2 years, we have presented the analogy of Non-Operating Room Anesthesia (NORA) as if it were a stock. Because the growth of NORA was so new, we chose to present it in a way as to show the advantages of its growth...

 

 

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The Roadmap to Effective Accountability

It is a common truism that “what we permit, we promote”. In the domain of Perioperative Clinical Directors, it is necessary to navigate and foster positive change among various departments and promote teamwork. However, this role also comes with the responsibility for...

 

 

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Considerations When Implementing A Massive Transfusion Protocol

The metropolitan Seattle area employs a centralized transfusion service composed of four laboratories supplying blood products to 20 hospitals and clinics. The Puget Sound Blood Center was established in 1944 and has been in place to this day. While this model has many...

 

 

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Communicating With the Surgical Attending

As we welcomed a fresh batch of second year anesthesia residents, I began to think of the moments that I dreaded the most during my first couple of months in the operating room. I recalled the...

 

 

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Mobile communication and HIPAA rules

Mobile technology in the health care industry has evolved rapidly with many new ways to communicate emerging every day. Maintaining the privacy of patient’s health care information with these new technologies is a serious...

 

 

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The START methodology to work up and manage surgery scheduling inaccuracy

Accurate operating room (OR) case scheduling is a key performance indicator (KPI) that is challenging to manage. Inaccurate OR scheduling is a phenomenon that is so common that performance improvement efforts by OR managers are often dismissed by OR staff who have experienced past efforts that...

 

 

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An Emerging Paradigm Shift in Perioperative Opioid Use

The rate of overdose of prescription opioids in the Unites states has more than quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, exceeding the combined death toll from cocaine and heroin. In 2010, prescription opioids were involved in 16,651 overdose deaths...

 

 

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