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  • Surgical Operations
  • Hospital Administration

Background:

  • Operating rooms (ORs) represent a significant portion of hospital costs and revenue.
  • Historically, cost reduction focused on personnel, but nursing shortages now threaten surgical departments.
  • Optimizing OR efficiency is crucial for treatment quality and economic success.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify improvements in OR efficiency despite existing resource restrictions.
  • To determine critical resources and burdens within the OR.
  • To optimize OR processes under conditions of personnel shortage.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of OR organization in an orthopedic and traumatology department facing reduced capacity due to nursing shortages.
  • Evaluation of potential process alterations, including their advantages and disadvantages.
  • Implementation of selected changes and examination of qualitative and quantitative outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Identified multifaceted problem areas within OR operations.
  • Implemented a fast-track OR model, concentrating resources on high-volume, less complex cases.
  • Established a patient holding area to eliminate transportation delays and optimized OR planning to reduce nocturnal procedures.
  • Achieved increased number of operations and improved incision-to-suture times despite reduced OR capacity.

Conclusions:

  • Process optimization in the OR is feasible and necessary, even with personnel shortages.
  • Structural changes can effectively eliminate bottlenecks.
  • Improvements lead to both qualitative and quantitative gains in surgical department performance.