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T U R N O V E R
Target Turnover Times
GEN, GYN, GU, Vascular, Robot
General Major
20 minutes
General Minor
15 minutes
GYN Major
20 minutes
GYN Minor
15 minutes
GU Major
20 minutes
GU Minor
15 minutes
Vascular/Endovascular 20 minutes
Robotics
30 minutes
Ortho/Neuro
Ortho Major
Ortho Minor
Ortho Spine
Arthroscopic
Neuro/Crani
30 minutes
15 minutes
30 minutes
20 minutes
45 minutes
ENT, Eyes, Plastics, Dental, OM
Phaco
10 minutes
Retina
15 minutes
ENT Minor
10 minutes
(peds <10: 15 min)
ENT Major
Plastics Major
Plastics Minor
Oral Rehab
Oral-Maxillofacial
20 minutes
20 minutes
15 minutes
15 minutes
20 minutes
and everyone strives to meet
that time," says Vicki
Merrick, RN, BSN, CASC,
Mercy Medical's administrative director of surgical services.
After consulting with her
staff, Ms. Merrick laid out her
turnover targets like this. You
can turn over a room
between ear tubes and tonsils in 10 minutes. Then
you've got such middle-ofthe-road cases as abdominal
and minor orthopedic surgeries that might take 15 to 18
minutes to turn over. Then
you've got your major bone
cases (total hip and knee
replacements) that can take
30 to 40 minutes to turn over
because you've got lots of
equipment and instrumentation being moved in and out
of the room.
"It's not reasonable to say
every room turnover is 20
minutes or 45 minutes," says
Ms. Merrick. "You can do a
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