To run dual rooms safely and efficiently, you have to be absolutely
rigid in your approach, and the surgeons and staff have to actively par-
ticipate in the process.
"You can't be passive," says Dr. Davis. "As the so-called captain of
the legal ship, you have to be actively involved."
And you have to have a feel for what you and your staff can reason-
ably do in one day.
"What you have to have is no compromise. What you're really con-
cerned about is wrong-site surgery and you just can't compromise on
that," says Dr. Branham. "There is no secret recipe to this other than
going through your center and finding out what steps are specific to
your center, your surgeon and your day. And then you work the
schedule like a jigsaw puzzle or a Jenga game."
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