Optimizing the Operating Room

An efficient operating room (OR) aims to ensure patients receive the highest level of care in a safe, well-managed environment. The surgical team manages a wide variety of tasks, including performing pre-operative care, administering anesthesia, conducting a time-out safety procedure and performing the surgery itself, all while maintaining a sterile environment, preventing infection and managing surgical equipment. Patients, protocols, processes and products all demand attention at once, and this perioperative dance requires everyone in the room to know their role and do their part. The team’s success ensures patient safety and success. 

It’s a tall order for any surgical team, but new data-driven, technologically savvy, customizable solutions are optimizing OR workflow to bolster surgical success and patient outcomes. From customizable tool trays to optimized OR scheduling, the following tools can help make any OR run more smoothly. Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based technology, these tools can increase your OR’s workflow and throughput.

DinamicOR Customizable Back Table Solutions

Combining technology with efficiency, DinamicOR offers multi-tiered back tables for surgical tools, custom-fitted drapes and a powerful workflow management app to revolutionize the OR experience.  

The four-in-one adjustable back table allows your team to adjust shelf positions and table height. Available in double-wide (fitting up to eight trays) or triple-wide (fitting up to 12 trays), it gives you 92 percent visibility of surgical tools without moving trays, reduces setup and takedown time by 33 percent and decreases staff tray movements by 88 percent. Durable, custom-fitted drapes work with the table to reduce the risk of sterile field violations. The drape features numbered placement icons to help your surgical team create repeatable tray setups, streamlining the process and minimizing errors. The Workflow Management App guides your team through an optimized, streamlined, repeatable tray setup process. It also offers an instrument database and a procedure encyclopedia with a wealth of information on new instruments and unfamiliar procedures. For more information, visit www.dinamicor.com.

QVENTUS Perioperative Solution

Surgery scheduling often complicates OR efficiency, and more than 30 percent of OR time goes unused. Quventus AI-powered Surgical Growth Solution puts the right cases in the right rooms at the right times, ensuring ORs are used to their full potential. Two perioperative solutions help increase surgical volume, maximize robotic asset utilization and attract best-fit surgeons, while reducing care teams’ administrative workload. For more information, visit www.qventus.com/solutions/surgical-services.

PROXIMIE Operating System

The Proximie operating system for intelligent operating rooms links people, data, devices and workflow to improve surgical throughput and quality using real-time, AI-powered insight and orchestration. This secure, scalable, cloud-based platform optimizes the schedule, reduces underutilization, drives efficiency and increases case volume. AI and computer vision detect surgical events and capture real-time OR data, replacing the need for manual data entry. It also improves collaboration and training, discovers patterns and reduces variations and adverse events. This tool integrates with electronic health records and combines predictive analytics and automated notifications. The intelligence suite streamlines workflows and increases throughput, helping ORs operate at their highest level. For more information or to request a demo, visit www.proximie.com.