to help turn over the room, the cards note the responsibility of the
additional helpers (clean the anesthesia equipment and take dirty
linen to the trash room, for example).
Ms. Paxton says the 3-card system is especially helpful when transi-
tioning from a more
involved case to a
simpler one, like from
a spine procedure to a
shoulder arthroscopy,
because you have a
different bed and
equipment require-
ments. Those types of
turnovers have been
cut from around 45
minutes to 25, she
says.
3. All hands on
deck
At the 6-OR St. John
Macomb-Oakland
Hospital in Madison
Heights, Mich., 2 sur-
gical support techs
are tasked with OR
turnover. One cleans
the bed area and
mops, while the other
removes the instru-
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