Appropriate education and implementation of departmental guidelines can result in more effective and efficient use of resources when dealing with nasal fractures in accident and emergency.
The planning of an operating list requires a number of considerations. Ideally the time available is fully utilized without overrunning and procedures are not cancelled due to a lack of time. Predicting the time a procedure will take is an estimate based on the procedure, the surgeon, the anaesthetist, and whether any surgical or anaesthetic trainees are to be involved. The actual time a procedure takes will be dependent, in addition, on whether any delays or complications are encountered and the time required remedying these. A study to look at optimizing theatre time use for ENT procedures was performed. METHODS: A retrospective analysis of common ENT procedures was performed and the anaesthetic, surgery and transfer times were compared. Operating times were found to be the most important contributory factor to the total time as well as being the most variable for the same procedure. RESULTS: Operating times were found to be surgeon-dependent. Anaesthetic times likewise were found to vary and be anaesthetist-dependent, although the contribution to total time was significantly less. Procedure times for trainees in comparison to trainers were, as expected, more. CONCLUSION: An analysis of theatre information systems found that continually updated procedure-specific times for individual surgeons and anaesthetists could be obtained. This is a commonly used theatre information system in British NHS trusts and could be easily integrated in planning operating lists and optimizing theatre time utility. SIGNIFICANCE: The study confirms that surgery times are very much personnel-dependent and the use of existing information technology could be used to plan operating sessions and optimize theatre utility time.
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