Why the study?
Block rooms allow parallel processing of surgical patients to improve resource utilization and patient outcomes, but there is disparity in the literature supporting these suppositions.
Does parallel processing of regional anesthesia with block rooms reduce anesthesia-controlled time in surgical patients?
Comparison
Parallel processing with block rooms vs serial processing
Design
Systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors
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Supports parallel processing with block rooms to improve OR efficiency; extends prior trial findings via meta-analysis.
Does parallel processing of regional anesthesia with block rooms reduce anesthesia-controlled time in surgical patients?
Parallel processing in regional anesthesia significantly reduces anesthesia-controlled time, turnover time, and PACU stay while improving OR throughput compared to serial processing.
El‐Boghdadly et al. (2020) studied this question.
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