OR Manager - June 2020 - 1

JUNE
2020
Volume 36
Number 6
The monthly publication for OR decision makers
IN THIS ISSUE
OR Manager Conference
Pandemic has altered
perceptions of healthcare
industry
COVID-19
ASCs following new rules
for safety during pandemic
OR business
Cost savings achieved
through sharing equipment 16
Special Series: ERAS
Hospital-wide ERAS adoption
hinges on leadership
support
19
Sterilization & infection
prevention
Device safety depends on routine
cleaning, maintenance
22
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
ASCs advised to embrace
EHRs sooner rather
than later
24
Implementing safety huddles
to improve patient outcomes 27
he COVID-19 pandemic is having
a major impact on all aspects
of healthcare delivery worldwide.
For children's hospitals, the crisis has
created unique challenges in ensuring
patient and provider safety as well as
helping to contain the spread of COVID19
through their communities.
According to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), children
account for between 1% and 2% of
the population testing positive for the
COVID-19 virus. The CDC reports that
children tend to be asymptomatic or
have mild or different symptoms than
adults. Transmission is likely the same
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as that seen in adults; however, it is
also suspected that children may be
more predisposed to spread the virus
through fecal-oral means.
Low incidence
" We have had a very low incidence of
COVID-19-positive patients, averaging
around five per day, and very few have
been in the ICU, " says Tammy Woolley,
MS, MBA, RN, CNOR, CSPM, NEA-BC,
director of perioperative services for
Children's Hospital Colorado's Anschutz
(North and South) Medical Campuses.
" Most children who are admitted have
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COVID-19
OR leaders chart new territory
for resuming elective surgery
lective surgical procedures that
were temporarily suspended
in mid-March are now on the
table-or soon will be-at some US
facilities. The ban, announced on
March 18 by the Centers for Medicare
& Medicaid Services (CMS), was enacted
to free up resources for facilities
overwhelmed by surges of COVID19
patients.
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On April 16, the federal government
declared a phased reopening of US
COVID-19
Children's hospital revises patient care
criteria for COVID-19
businesses that had closed during the
most acute period of the pandemic.
Since then, a flurry of new guidelines,
webinars, and other resources have
been offered to help leaders at hospitals
and ambulatory surgery centers
(ASCs) ensure the safety of perioperative
staff and their patients. Here
are some recommendations for how to
move forward in a dramatically different
patient care environment.
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