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  • Surgical Process Improvement
  • Operating Room Efficiency
  • Thoracic Surgery

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  • The interval between operating room entry and skin incision in thoracic surgery can be lengthy.
  • Optimizing pre-incision workflows is crucial for improving operating room turnover and patient safety.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and implement multidisciplinary interventions to decrease the pre-incision time in thoracic surgical operations.
  • To assess the impact of standardized procedures on surgical workflow efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • A multidisciplinary team identified 38 pre-incision steps.
  • Critical path and Pareto analysis informed intervention design, focusing on intubation, patient positioning, and line placement.
  • Pre-incision times were measured across four phases: pre-intervention, run-in, post-intervention, and a five-month follow-up.

Main Results:

  • The median pre-incision time decreased by 19%, from 42.5 minutes to 34.5 minutes, with sustained improvement at follow-up (33 minutes).
  • Median positioning time was reduced from 9 to 4 minutes, and intubation time decreased from 7.5 to 6 minutes.
  • Reductions in pre-incision times were maintained five months post-intervention.

Conclusions:

  • Multidisciplinary team engagement in designing process improvements effectively reduces pre-incision time in thoracic surgery.
  • Standardization of key steps and reduction of process variability are key to achieving and sustaining operating room efficiency.