An intensive course with CME credit is given at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, at hosted sites, and online. The course is based on these cases and the lectures below:

1.		Statistics for anesthesia
2.		Anesthesiologist training for decisions on afternoons, evenings, and weekends
3.		Decision-making on the day of surgery
4.		Service-specific operating room staffing
5.		Operating room financial assessment for tactical decision-making
6.		Economics of reducing turnover times (for US surgical suites)
7.		Economics of anesthetic agents
8.		Strategic planning: financial impact of different types of surgery
9.		Anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist staffing
10.		Physician agreements – Anesthesia support & surgeon blocks
11.		Showing differences among hospitals and their surgical practices

For examples of OR management reports, click here (ORs) and click here (PACU).

For low cost training in OR management, take the (above) intensive course followed by a 2 year period mentored by Dr. Dexter using email and web conferencing (click here for terms). Analysts and engineers can take the course online at their own pace. At the conclusion of this training, the learner should understand the science of OR management and how to apply it at his or her facility (practice).

For a list of some key papers in operating room management, click here.

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