‘Out-of-Body’ time in the OR
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Hospital leverages surgical intelligence metrics to justify the purchase of new OR equipment
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The Challenge
Out-of-body time is a metric often overlooked by hospitals when analyzing the efficiencies of their operating rooms. But hospitals who use out-of-body time in their OR analysis are seeing huge gains in safety and efficiency.
When out-of-body time is too high
For this case study, we analyzed ‘out of body time’ in 649 gynecologic procedures performed at Sourasky Medical Center.
The data demonstrated a remarkably high amount of operative time spent with the camera outside the body:
- The total time spent OOB during all 649 procedures was 35.5 hours (the equivalent of 23.5 total abdominal hysterectomies)
- Hysteroscopic procedures had highest percentage of OOB time, with an average of 22.73% in 29 procedures.
- Salpingo-oophorectomy procedures also saw significant OOB time, ranging from 11.3% to 15.3%.
