Scheduling the nonoperating room anesthesia suite

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Mary E Warner, David P Martin

Abstract

Nonoperating room anesthesia (NORA) and procedural services often are associated with dispersed geographic settings and small volumes of cases. These lead to scheduling challenges that, if not managed well, result in decreased patient and healthcare team satisfaction and reduced efficiency. This review describes recent studies and provides examples on how NORA scheduling issues have been addressed. Increased use of blocked time for consolidated NORA services can lead to sufficiently large volumes of cases that allow improved scheduling and maintain patient and healthcare team satisfaction and better efficiency of care. In general, patients and proceduralists find that service blocks offered at least once every 2 weeks are acceptable. With the ability to perform the full scope of perioperative practices such as preoperative assessment and postoperative management, anesthesiologists are well positioned to lead NORA services. There is a rising expectation for both graduate medical education experiences and continuing education in quality improvement for NORA services. Many factors play a role in successful scheduling of NORA services. Increasing consolidation of services, the use of block scheduling, and leadership by anesthesiolo...Continue Reading

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May 7, 2020·Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology·Christopher Tan Setiawan, Mary Landrigan-Ossar
Aug 4, 2019·Der Anaesthesist·J KramerB M Graf
Aug 15, 2020·Anesthesiology Clinics·Mary Landrigan-Ossar, Christopher Tan Setiawan
May 14, 2021·Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia·Kai QiuAdam A Dalia

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