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SUBMITTER: Chazapis M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4645799 | biostudies-other | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Chazapis Maria M Kaur Navkiran N Kamming Damon D
BMJ quality improvement reports 20140502 1
Regional anaesthesia has multiple known benefits over general anaesthesia alone, but requires time and expertise for its application. This study aimed to decrease anaesthetic time and increase total surgical operative time by instituting a 'block room' where regional anaesthesia nerve blocks could be provided by expert anaesthetists in regular scheduled sessions. A baseline audit showed that 2 hours per day was spent on performing nerve blocks. Development of the block room allowed nerve blocks ...[more]