Optimizing spine surgery instrument trays to immediately increase efficiency and reduce costs in the operating room.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over-crowded surgical trays result in perioperative inefficiency and unnecessary costs. While methodologies to reduce the size of surgical trays have been described in the literature, they each have their own drawbacks. In this study, we compared three methods: (1) clinician review (CR), (2) mathematical programming (MP), and (3) a novel hybrid model (HM) based on surveys and cost analysis. While CR and MP are well documented, CR can yield suboptimal reductions and MP can be laborious and technically challenging. We hypothesized our easy-to-implement HM would result in a reduction of surgical instruments in both the laminectomy tray (LT) and basic neurosurgery tray (BNT) that is comparable to CR and MP.

Methods

Three approaches were tested: CR, MP, and HM. We inte

SUBMITTER: Belhouari S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10130344 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature