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May 13, 2011AnaesthesiaOpen Access

Estimating the time needed for induction of anaesthesia and its importance in balancing anaesthetists’ and surgeons’ waiting times around the start of surgery

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Why the study?

Does a spreadsheet-based method improve the balance of waiting times between anaesthetists and surgeons for the first cases of the day?

Population

718 first cases of the day during a 4-week study period at two university hospitals

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Authors

TKTitus R. KoenigMarymount UniversityCNChristian NeumannVienna University of Economics and BusinessTOT. OckerMarymount University

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Overview

May optimize first-case OR scheduling for anesthesia and surgery teams; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before adoption.

Structured PICO

Does a spreadsheet-based method improve the balance of waiting times between anaesthetists and surgeons for the first cases of the day?

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Population
718 first cases of the day during a 4-week study period at two university hospitals
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Intervention
A simple spreadsheet-based method to analyse the interaction of anaesthesia and surgical start time, anaesthesia technique and the probability of waiting time
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Outcome
Waiting time for anaesthetists and surgeons

A spreadsheet-based method can help optimize surgical and anaesthesia start times to minimize friction and waiting times between surgical and anaesthesia teams.

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Koenig et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d5048e9cd826fb346d276https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.2011.06661.x
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