A study, published in Anesthesia & Analgesia, examined peripheral nerve block utilization in outpatient surgery settings across the U.S. Rodney A. Gabriel, MD, of UC San Diego, and colleagues ...

T.K. Miller, MD, an orthopedic surgeon with Carilion Clinic Orthopedics and medical director at Roanoke (Va.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, recently went through a utilization analysis and found ways to ...

Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, is regional vice president of operations for Health Inventures. Q: What is a good benchmark for maximum operating room utilization in an ambulatory surgery center ...

UCHealth announced its inpatient operating room (OR) utilization at University of Colorado Hospital has seen a 16 percent increase for the blocks exchanged through mobile block swaps, in just three ...

Matching operating room (OR) supply and demand and ensuring adequate anesthesia coverage without underutilizing resources are two of hospitals’ toughest challenges in the perioperative space. During a ...

In 2018, as part of an overall health system initiative to improve patient flow and increase capacity, Allina sought to optimize its surgical services by eliminating as much waste and inefficiency in ...