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.

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.