Your OR. More Powerful.

How could you use an extra 3,000 – 5,000 hours annually from your existing OR infrastructure and team?

Alleviating the Surgical Backlog | March 29, 2022

Hosted by Roger Bourbonnais, Vice President of Acute and Skin Health, this informative webinar discussed the unprecented 500,000 procedures across Canada, and explored opportunities to generate faster OR turns to alleviate this backlog.

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Consider reviewing programs designed to maximize OR throughput

  • Ideal staff skill utilization
  • Space and storage
  • Workflow designs
  • Product and practice standardization
  • Reduce non-value handling of supplies

Delivering efficiencies to unlock resources

Reduce Spend

  • Apply value-based spending
  • Reduce waste
  • Realize volume-based discounts

Improve Clinical Efficiency and Performance

  • Assess and optimize surgical workflow by adopting evidence-based best practices
  • Standardize and streamline OR processes
  • Accelerate OR turns

Optimize Supply Chain 

  • Establish agile inventory management
  • Minimize supply disruptions
  • Simplify supply chain management processes and optimize space utilization
45% REDUCTION IN CASE PICK TIMES • 54% REDUCTION IN CASE SET-UP TIME

Scarborough Hospital and Complete Delivery System Case Study 

Results of this case study showed an annual saving of 96% reduction in handling of supplies at the site level. The end result was thousands of hours saved annually that could be repurposed and used to turn the OR.
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