ing your sur-
geons to
decrease the
number of
total joint
instrument
pans and to
agree on the
contents of the
procedure
packs. It also
means having
enough staff
and instruments to turn rooms over in a timely fashion. Your reward
for such well-kept rooms will be greatly improved efficiency, signifi-
cant savings and satisfied surgeons.
When we opened the Virtua Joint Replacement Institute in August
2012, it was a marriage of megatrends: new surgical construction
unites with the budding popularity of same-day joint replacement
surgery. More than 3 years later, we're still in our honeymoon phase.
In 2015, we did exceptionally well: We replaced more than 2,000
joints in our 6 ORs.
Much of our success lies in our room design, the smart equipment
purchases we've made, and our efforts to keep our instrument and
supply inventories as minimal as possible. The fewer items you have
on the shelves and the fewer supplies you have to pick, the easier it is
to prep a case.
Form and function
We built our facility from the ground up. In addition to the periopera-
3 8 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 6
• PROCESS OF ELIMINATION A typical total knee set contains 8 instrument trays. By reviewing what surgeons didn't
use and keeping accurate preference cards, the Virtua Joint Replacement Institute pared the number of trays down to 4.
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Albany
(Ohio)
Surgery
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