Need your OR knowledge.....patient from clinic or other facility to OR???

[staceyp413]

I'm looking for feedback in order to improve our process for add on urgent/emergent surgical cases to an already busy OR schedule. Specifically, if a patient comes from a MD office in the clinic, urgent care, or an outside facility (MD office, EMTC, hospital, etc) where do your surgical patients go????

-Straight to OR

-Straight to the floor

-EMTC/ER and then to either OR if ready or inpt floor

-During daytime and staffed hours the SSC/Ambulatory unit

-Any other tricks of the trade????

Thank you so much in advance and any advice, input, or sites for reference appreciated:yeah:

[konacactus]

Aloha:

Any add-on urgent or emergent cases coming from an outside source go through our ER. If they're "truly urgent/emergent" the best place for them to be is the ER until the OR is available. We found that this cut back the number of urgent add on's and many were changed to elective scheduled cases when they were told they'd have to go through the ER.

konacactus

[maeyken]

ANY outside cases go through ER whether they come from another hospital, a doctor's office, clinic, etc. If we're not ready for them, and they have a bed, then they go to the floor to wait for us. :)

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Outpatient surgery check-in (ASC) first, whether they are going home that day or not, that's the 'default' receiving area.