Practical Operating Theatre Management
Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience

A practical manual that focuses on theatre efficiency and time measurement, providing scheduling toolkits and problem solving approaches.

Jaideep J. Pandit (Edited by)

9781316646830, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 November 2018

206 pages, 92 b/w illus. 21 tables
24.5 x 18.9 x 1 cm, 0.46 kg

'… Practical Operating Theatre Management: Measuring and Improving Performance and Patient Experience delivers on both content and readability supported by data-driven metrics, making it a useful resource for clinical staff, theatre managers, and hospital management alike. I highly recommended it for future healthcare management course curricula.' Jaideep J. Pandit, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Distilling the ideas central to managing operating theatres, this book provides a practical and easy to use toolkit to improve theatre efficiency and patient outcomes. It advocates using time as the key measurement and proposes a new norm of operating theatre management based on rational, data-driven principles. Notions of 'efficiency' and 'scheduling' are clearly defined, and a scheduling toolkit available to download accompanies the work. The book's easy to use format supports managers in list planning, performance monitoring and demand-capacity matching while considering limited budgets and resources. It includes contributions from around the world, demonstrating the global application of its core approach. Aimed primarily at operating theatre managers, this book will also interest consultants, senior trainees, nurses and administrators who are involved in the daily running of the operating theatre and/or want to develop their leadership/managerial skills.

Foreword Andy Hardy
Preface
1. Introduction and scope of book Jaideep J. Pandit
2. Defining 'efficiency' Jaideep J. Pandit
3. Defining 'productivity' Jaideep J. Pandit
4. Case scheduling Jaideep J. Pandit
5. Capacity planning Jaideep J. Pandit
6. Staffing and contracts Jaideep J. Pandit
7. Theatre finances Jaideep J. Pandit
8. Pre-operative patient preparation Jaideep J. Pandit
9. Operating theatre management in New Zealand Cameron C. R. Buchanan
10. Operating theatre management in Japan Yoshinori Nakata
11. Operating theatre management in two European countries André van Zundert and Thomas Sieber
12. Operating theatre management in Australia André van Zundert
13. Operating theatre management in the United States Emily B. Goldenberg and Alex Macario
14. Clinical governance and safety in theatres Meghana Pandit
15. Summary and overview Peter H. J. Müller
Index.

Subject Areas: Surgery [MN], Anaesthetics [MMB]