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Knowing Me, Knowing You: What Can We Learn From Familiar Surgical Teams?

Incision

Work in the OR involves highly adaptive and task-focused collaboration between team members, often around safety-critical protocols and sophisticated equipment; intuitively, it makes sense that a history of working together would be helpful. There are significant logistical challenges to forming consistent and familiar teams.

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Knowing Me, Knowing You: Can We Proxy Surgical Team Familiarity?

Incision

A similar idea to this is through surgical “preference cards” that list the supplies a surgeon requests for each procedure. Assist , an application made by Incision, takes this several steps further, enabling OR teams to digitally capture their protocols, equipment, and specific ways of working. The Future for Surgical Teams?