The development of a decision-support tool for the performance optimisation of the operating room: Creating a holistic view of the operating room performance for the healthcare professionals by defining the objectives and assessment criteria of optimisation on the performance of the operating room.

The operating rooms (OR) in hospitals is a complex system, with a high number of innovations every year. Therefore the healthcare professionals (HCPs) are required to choose between the several aspects and innovations for the OR. Decision-making requires a mutual vision (Littlejohn et al., 2017) and should be based on evidence (Turner et al.,...

Object detection using SIFT

Surgical teams use instrument counts to prevent leaving unintended objects in patients. This is done manually, but could potentially be done through computer vision software. This paper presents a proof of concept for detecting instruments in the operating room with the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT). The SIFT algorithm is explored and...

Operating Room Scheduling during COVID-19: An advice on planning models in the Reinier de Graaf hospital

During the first COVID-19 wave in the Netherlands, hospitals had to scale down their elective care all over the hospital to make room for COVID-19 patients. Even the Operating Room (OR) reduced their surgeries to acute care. It is, however, hard to define how much the OR should downscale. Also, there are no national plans on how hospitals should...

Surgical team’ sustainable employability in minimally invasive surgery: To achieve a balanced employability to counteract waste of talent and skills in a sustainable way

Technological developments in the medical world introduce a shift in responsibilities of the surgical team members which might result in waste of talent and skills. The latter might result in disengagement and decreased productivity and thus in illness-related absenteeism. The people pillar of sustainability aims to create a healthy workplace...

Radiation Emission and Protection Regarding the Mobile C-arm in Operating Rooms of the Reinier de Graaf Hospital

The goal of this study was to investigate whether mobile C-arms are being optimally used, securing the safety of staff members in operating rooms of the Reinier de Graaf hospital (RDGG). Mobile C-arm use is evaluated in terms of radiation emission and radiation exposure, staff communication and procedural aspects. The current use of the mobile C...