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O P H T H A L M O L O G Y
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Circulators have their hands full
Readers Reveal Efficiency Facts
throughout the course of a surgi-
ALWAYS READY Thirty-one percent of facility managers have 5 or more instrument sets per OR.
Dewight Davis, RN, CNOR
cal day: charting, prepping
patients, managing implants and
ensuring pre-op time outs are performed properly. A second, roving
1. Do you use 1 or 2 cataract rooms per surgeon?
1 room ....................................63%
2 rooms ..................................37%
2. What's your average OR turnover time?
1 to 5 minutes .......................55%
6 to 10 minutes .....................34%
11 to 15 minutes...................11%
3. How many people are involved in room turnovers?
1...............................................5%
2...............................................45%
3...............................................44%
4 or more ...............................6%
4. Do you have a floating tech or
nurse to help with room turnovers?
yes ..........................................62%
no ............................................38%
5. How many instrument sets do you have per OR?
1...............................................2%
2...............................................21%
3...............................................22%
4...............................................24%
5 or more ...............................31%
6. How much street clothing do
cataract patients wear in the OR?
all their clothes ....................50%
only pants,
underwear & socks ............36%
no street clothes at all .......14%
7. Do you use stretcher chairs/tables?
yes ..........................................65%
no ............................................35%
circulator can assist with eye
SOURCE: Outpatient Surgery Magazine Reader
Survey, December 2012, n=128
ready for a case to begin, while
prepping and room setup before
moving to another OR to offer
support there.
Always try to staff each eye OR
with 3 surgical team members:
the circulator, a scrub nurse who
assists the physician and an additional scrub nurse whose primary
function is to speed room
turnovers. As the physician is
completing a procedure, the additional scrub nurse begins to turn
over the room. Once the surgeon
is finished, he heads over to a
second OR that's primed and
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