Managing capacity for urgent surgery: staffing, staff scheduling in-house or on-call from home, and work assignments
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Emergency Undocking in Robotic Surgery: A Simulation Curriculum
Published on: May 20, 2018
Franklin Dexter1, Richard H Epstein2
1Department of Anesthesia, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Abstract:
Parmar and colleagues developed and validated a graphical method for choosing the number of operating theatres to set aside for urgent surgical cases. We address appropriate usage of their new method for calculating anaesthesia staffing, including comparison with previously published techniques. Parmar and colleagues' method is based on all staff scheduled in-house, rather than some on-call from home. We review that this is not nearly as large a limitation as it may seem because of behavioural factors of staff assignment.
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