OPTIMIZATION PROCESS IN OPERATING ROOM

Łyp-Wrońska K 1

1 AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland

 

Every company try to be most effective and achieve quality.  Optimization processes are very important in hospitals - operating room.  The consequences of poor work planning can have consequences for whole process, ergonomics of work in operating room.  To achieve those goals, the organization of the workplace is very important. It shall be maximally adapted to the operation process which provides an added value through saved time. Thanks to the study of work processes time, it is possible to determine the workload of individual activities and its continuity. It could be realized by using the basic methods of working time analysis, e.g., time study, activity study, comparisons and estimations, and methods of time measurement. The concept of the work is to analyse work time of selected activities and the proposal to reorganize the workplace in operation room. Every activity steps is recorded on video. Then, all elementary movements were described and the reorganization of the workplace was proposed. Knowing the course of the process steps of each subassemblies and by analysing all obtained results, the organization of the workplace could be modified to minimize the process time as much as possible. Optimizing the work time can bring benefits, eg. reduction of the operation time, good management of materials and tool and cleanliness in the operating room.