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- The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted surgical care globally, prompting significant changes in surgical operations at a pediatric hospital.
- To adapt, hospital leaders revised staff scheduling and surgical suite usage to manage reduced surgical volume and heightened COVID-19 safety measures.
- They also seized the opportunity to improve scheduling processes by engaging all stakeholders for feedback, leading to more efficient operations that could serve as a model for other pediatric facilities.
Article Abstract
The detrimental effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have profoundly disrupted surgical care at health care facilities worldwide. At our tertiary pediatric hospital, we made substantial adjustments to surgical suite utilization and staff member scheduling to account for reductions in surgical volume, increased demand for staff members in other sectors of the hospital, and the highly infectious properties of the virus. Perioperative leaders took advantage of the pandemic's disruption to clinical activities to design and implement a new procedure-scheduling process to rectify the inefficiencies that had accumulated as the previous system evolved. The implementation of said directives was largely facilitated by establishing communication with all involved parties for their input and feedback throughout the process. Although COVID-19 has had varying effects on procedural operations across pediatric health care facilities, we believe our institutional response to the disruptive forces of COVID-19 is of benefit to pediatric hospitals worldwide.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9011624 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aorn.13604 | DOI Listing |
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