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Delays In Perioperative Patient Flow: An Initial Analysis, David Nelson, Md, Mba, Kent Berg, Md, Mba, Rebecca Barnett, Md, Mbchb, Oren Guttman, Md, Mba

Department of Anesthesiology Posters

• When considering the operating room (OR) suite as a hospital business unit, one must not only acknowledge its revenue-earning contribution to financial solvency but also the potential for margin-eroding cost when utilized inefficiently. 1
• One particularly challenging contributor to perioperative inefficiency is when patients are prevented from moving out of the OR into downstream phases of care once surgery has been completed. These so-called “PACU delays” (also known as recovery room admission delays) are particularly concerning for OR leadership because they increase direct labor costs and result in opportunity cost when additional surgery is prevented from being performed
• At Thomas …