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Operating room distractions

Brad Truax, MD, principal consultant of the Truax Group, says he doesn’t think anybody has really done a good job at reducing distractions in the OR. As an example, he cites a 2021 study done by Alysha Nensi and company.

“Overall, most places continue to be plagued by distractions in the OR,” Truax says. “Virtually every case [study] that’s done has [noted] some sort of distraction, and that most recent paper that came out, the one by Nensi, basically showed we had over [261] distractions per case. It’s incredible.”

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