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Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management

Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management

Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management

Edition:
3rd Edition
Editors:
Alan David Kaye, Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Richard D. Urman, Ohio State University
Charles J. Fox III, Louisiana State University School of Medicine
Kelsey Kukuruza, Christoph Egger, Alex Macario, Alan David Kaye, Ross Musumeci, Kimberly L. Skidmore, Omar A. Gafur, Charles J. Fox, Richard D. Urman, Michael R. Williams, Debbie Chandler, Elyse M. Cornett, Shilpadevi Patil, David S. Silver, Douglas P. Slakey, Franklin Dexter, Richard H. Epstein, Wilton Levine, Adam Dalia, Judith S. Dahle, Pat Patterson, John J. Wellik, Markus M. Luedi, Thomas J. Sieber, Dietrich Doll, D. Matthew Sherrer, Juhan Paiste, Thomas R. Vetter, Diana Anca, Thomas E. Shulte, Shayan Zadeh, Sanjana Vig, Steven Boggs, Elie Sarraf, Molly B. Kraus, Kyle R. Kirkham, Mitchell H. Tsai, Sonya Pease, Deena Gauthier, Lynette Peterson, Paul Rhodes, Yiru Tong, Rong Wei, Longqiu Yang, Henry Liu, Steven D. Waldman, Jonathan P. Eskander, Charles J. Fox, Michael R. Hicks, Laurie Saletnik, James X. Stobinski, Brandon G. Bennett, Shermeen B. Vakharia, Taizoon Q. Dhoon, Zeev Kain, Michelle Rizan Williamson, Kylie Dufrene, Dorothy Askins, Ramesses Akamefula, Tyler Alise Le, Megan E. Vasterling, Renuka Shenoy, Erica Stein, Keith J. Ruskin, Ori Gottlieb, Valeriy Kozmenko, Lyubov Kozmenko, Melville Q. Wyche, Sanjana Vig, Steven D. Boggs, Van S. Smith, Ellile Sultan, Susan Harper
Published:
May 2026
Availability:
Available
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781009467407

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    Effective leadership is critical to ensuring safety, efficiency and maximum productivity in the operating room (OR). This practical, evidence-based third edition focuses on the dynamics of a successful OR environment to underline the key techniques for management of policies, systems, staff members and teams. Fully updated to include recent clinical guidelines, the book provides the 'A-Z' of OR management, including sections on metrics, scheduling, human resource management, leadership principles, economics, quality assurance, recovery, ambulatory practice and topics specific to anesthesia and pain service providers. Featuring new chapters on the role of artificial intelligence in transforming operating room perform, training, certification and career development, instrumentation management, and safety of operating room personnel. With contributions from authors with unrivalled experience in the field, this new edition continues to be an essential guide for anyone working in the OR including anaesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses, and administrators.

    • This valuable book supports and enables efficient leadership of the OR, at a time when hospital revenue is highly dependent on perioperative services and management teams face pressure to increase productivity
    • Illustrated throughout with real-life clinical cases, the book is laid out in an easy and clinically relevant format, with each chapter featuring a series of subtopic questions and answers to assist learning
    • Chapters are written by foremost leaders in the field of anaesthesiology and pain management, many of whom are perioperative leaders in the United States

    Product details

    • Published: May 2026
    • Format: Hardback
    • ISBN: 9781009467407
    • Length: 492 pages
    • Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 27 mm
    • Weight: 1.065kg
    • Availability: Available

    Table of Contents

    • Operating room leadership and management
    • Part I. Leadership and Strategy:
    • 1. Leadership principles
    • 2. The path to a successful operating room environment
    • 3. Strategic planning
    • 4. Decision making: the art and the science
    • 5. Implications of emotional intelligence and collaboration for operating room leadership and management
    • 6. Operating room culture change
    • Part II. Economic Considerations, Efficiency, and Design:
    • 7. Disruptions in surgery
    • 8. Influence of operating room staffing and scheduling on operating room productivity
    • 9. Operations management and financial performance
    • 10. Reengineering operating room function
    • 11. Operating room design and construction: technical considerations
    • 12. Operating an ambulatory surgery centre as a successful business
    • 13. Influence of patient- and procedure-specific factors on Operating Room efficiency and decision making
    • 14. Operating room management in future perioperative medicine models of care
    • 15. Non-operating room locations
    • 16. Efficiency and scheduling
    • 17. The role of artificial intelligence in transforming operating room perform
    • 18. Operating room budgets: an overview
    • Part III. Surgical and Anesthesia Practice Management:
    • 19. Preoperative evaluation and management
    • 20. Identifying bottleneck constrains to improve the preoperative evaluation process
    • 21. Anesthesia practice management
    • 22. Defining the anesthesia value proposition
    • 23. Anesthesia billing, coding, and compliance
    • 24. Surgical vendor contract management
    • 25. Postanesthesia care unit management: building a safe and efficient service
    • 26. Pain practice management
    • 27. Office-based surgery practice
    • 28. The future of perioperative medicine
    • Part IV. Nursing:
    • 29. Operating room metrics
    • 30. Training, certification and career development
    • 31. Instrumentation management
    • 32. Operating room staffing guidelines
    • 33. Resource management (re-write/new)
    • Part V. Safety, Standards, and Information Technology:
    • 34. The joint commission, CMS, and other standards
    • 35. State licensing, medicare certification, and accreditation processes
    • 36. Hospital accreditation
    • 37. Safety of operating room personnel
    • 38. Procedural sedation: clinical and safety considerations
    • 39. AIMS (Anesthesia Information Management System) for the out-of-the-OR
    • 40. Simulation as a tool to improve patient safety
    • 41. Education in operating room management
    • 42. Organizations dedicated to and current overview of enhanced recovery after surgery
    • 43. Checklist utility in the perioperative care environment
    • 44. Anesthesiology disaster management and emergency preparedness.

    Contributors

    Kelsey Kukuruza, Christoph Egger, Alex Macario, Alan David Kaye, Ross Musumeci, Kimberly L. Skidmore, Omar A. Gafur, Charles J. Fox, Richard D. Urman, Michael R. Williams, Debbie Chandler, Elyse M. Cornett, Shilpadevi Patil, David S. Silver, Douglas P. Slakey, Franklin Dexter, Richard H. Epstein, Wilton Levine, Adam Dalia, Judith S. Dahle, Pat Patterson, John J. Wellik, Markus M. Luedi, Thomas J. Sieber, Dietrich Doll, D. Matthew Sherrer, Juhan Paiste, Thomas R. Vetter, Diana Anca, Thomas E. Shulte, Shayan Zadeh, Sanjana Vig, Steven Boggs, Elie Sarraf, Molly B. Kraus, Kyle R. Kirkham, Mitchell H. Tsai, Sonya Pease, Deena Gauthier, Lynette Peterson, Paul Rhodes, Yiru Tong, Rong Wei, Longqiu Yang, Henry Liu, Steven D. Waldman, Jonathan P. Eskander, Charles J. Fox, Michael R. Hicks, Laurie Saletnik, James X. Stobinski, Brandon G. Bennett, Shermeen B. Vakharia, Taizoon Q. Dhoon, Zeev Kain, Michelle Rizan Williamson, Kylie Dufrene, Dorothy Askins, Ramesses Akamefula, Tyler Alise Le, Megan E. Vasterling, Renuka Shenoy, Erica Stein, Keith J. Ruskin, Ori Gottlieb, Valeriy Kozmenko, Lyubov Kozmenko, Melville Q. Wyche, Sanjana Vig, Steven D. Boggs, Van S. Smith, Ellile Sultan, Susan Harper

    Editors

    Alan David Kaye , Louisiana State University School of Medicine

    Alan David Kaye is Immediate Former Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, Provost, Pain Fellowship Program Director and Tenure Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neurosciences at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. He is also Vice Chairman of Research and Tenured Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine.

    Richard D. Urman , Ohio State University

    Richard D. Urman is the Jay J. Jacoby Professor and Chairman in the Department of Anesthesiology at The Ohio State University and Wexner Medical Center and Chief of Anesthesiology for the Health System. He is a Fellow of the Association of Anesthesia Clinical Directors (FAACD), serving as its Board member and Treasurer, and is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI).

    Associate Editor

    Charles J. Fox III , Louisiana State University School of Medicine

    Charles J. Fox III Professor of Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport and System Chief Medical Officer for Ochsner/LSU Health.