Cath Lab Room Utilization

We would all benefit from working together toward industry wide standards for cath lab room utilization.

Cath lab room utilization.

Add control room hybrid or cath ep orhc1 6. Cardiac partners has developed and managed cath labs since 1984. Delete control room catheterization laboratory xccc1 5. Rachel has 17 years of experience in the operating room ranging from circulator scrub rnfa educator charge nurse manager and director.

Graves rcis fsicp centennial medical center clinical coordinator cardiovascular lab nashville tennesee sedation of patients undergoing biventricular ppm or aicd 1. Cath lab room utilization was calculated as the ratio of the number of hours staffed to the number of hours utilized excluding weekend cases and cases beginning after the lab s end time after adjusting for room closures. Having a well defined throughput process can optimize lab utilization. To determine the utilization or capacity of a current lab the provider will simply add the total procedure weights for procedures performed or projected and compare that to the total capacity for a cath lab.

I am looking for the amount of time the room is in use. Getting each patient into and out of the procedure room in a timely manner can add minutes and maybe even hours to the daily schedules allowing for the accommodation of a greater number of cases. Even though a cath lab manager may believe their throughput process is the. For a number of these regulated states the capacity for a cath lab is equal to 2 000 weighted cases per year.

Bringing new efficiency standards to cath lab operations. A turnaround time of 18 min was added for each case 25 min were added before january 2015 before we realized our gains. This case study in collaboration shares how cleveland clinic helped an alliance partner hospital dramatically boost its on time starts in the cath lab and slash its room turnover times over a 12 month period. Procedure room electrophysiology xcep1 3.

Anesthesia lithotripsy sterile processing department cath specials lab and endoscopy. Block utilization committee will review compliance with operating. Add storage clean tee probe room. Room utilization does anyone have a cath lab room utilization formula to calculate to what percentage a room is utilized.

We hope that this will spur discussion to better define standards for cath lab procedure room utilization and that readers will share their thoughts. This was achieved without negative effects on case volume and with improvements in employee satisfaction and productivity as detailed in this earlier consult qd post. Add decontamination tee probe room trte2 7. The net result was a gain of 5 1 to 5 6 hours per day of additional cath lab time which arose from improved utilization and reduced room turnaround times the authors note.