Operating Room Costs Articles & Analysis: Older
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With CoapTech (http://www.coaptech.com/about2/), Steven Tropello and Howard Carolan are working on new technology for replacing patients' feeding tubes. The approach, called Percutaneous Ultrasound Gastrostomy, or PUG, utilizes a device with magnets that doctors can use to guide a feeding tube into place. It also features an ultrasound that allows doctors to see what is happening inside the body ...
ByCoapTech
The high variability in the required operating room (OR) time of open heart surgeries with approximately four and a half hours average overall duration is the main challenge in managing OR utilisation. We evaluate, with a discrete-event simulation model, how three different process changes – a four-day OR week, better accuracy in OR time forecasting and having anaesthesia induction take place ...