Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston) has opened a 28-OR surgical suite based on the hospital’s “OR of the Future” research. This brief article describes the pod design concept in which 4 operating rooms are arranged around a central core for instrument setup. The high-throughput pod includes 12 perioperative bays and enables parallel processing.
Source: High-throughput OR pod expedites patient flow. OR Manager;27(11):13-14, Nov. 2011. Click here for the publisher’s website: http://www.ormanager.com/catalog/default.php?cPath=23_42_280 Posted by AHA Resource Center, (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org
Filed under: Design, Posted by Kim Garber, Surgical suite | Tagged: Operating room of the future, OR design, OR of the future |
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