Building and Maintaining Organizational Infrastructure to Attain Clinical Excellence.
Kelly Lebak, Jason Lane, Richard Taus, Hansol Kim, Michael S Stecker, Michael Hall, Meghan B Lane-Fall, Mark S Weiss
Author Information
Kelly Lebak: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Brecksville Ambulatory Surgery Center, Cleveland, OH 44109, USA.
Jason Lane: Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1301 Medical Center Drive, 4648 TVC, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Richard Taus: SMG Radiology, Morton Hospital, 88 Washington Street, Taunton, MA 02780, USA.
Hansol Kim: Division of Angiography and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Midcampus SR-340, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Michael S Stecker: Division of Angiography and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Midcampus SR-340, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Michael Hall: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 6th Floor Dulles Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Meghan B Lane-Fall: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 309 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Mark S Weiss: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 6th Floor Dulles Building, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: Mark.Weiss@uphs.upenn.edu.
Active maintenance of highly functional teams is critical to ensuring safe, efficient patient care in the non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) suite. In addition to developing collaborative relationships and patient care protocols, individual and team training is needed. For anesthesiologists, this training must begin during residency. The training should be supplemented with continuing education in this field for providers who find themselves working in the NORA space. As NORA continues to grow, robust NORA-specific quality assurance and improvement programs will empower anesthesiologists with the tools they need to best care for these patients.
