C-arms and towers double-parked in the hallway. Rooms feel crowded
and congested, more like warehouses than surgical suites. To get to
the patient on the table, you have to navigate an obstacle course of
equipment, climbing over carts, hopping over cords and crawling
under monitors.
"It's hard to even know where the patient is," says Lynn Razzano,
RN, MSN, ONCC, a
clinical nurse consult-
ant from Boston,
Mass. "It's like walking
into a house that's got
a hoarder living in it."
As Jay Bowers, BSN,
CNOR, TNCC, clinical
educator at West
Virginia University
Hospitals in
Morgantown, W.Va.,
says, "There is not
enough room to move
around." Like many
facility leaders, Mr.
Bowers has discov-
ered that one way to
declutter your ORs is
to furnish it with thin-
ner, more streamlined
equipment with a
smaller footprint (see
"Shopping for Thin
OR Equipment"). This
goes beyond such
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