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

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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. As well as operative times, familiar teams can improve OR preparation and turnover between cases.

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

Incision

A successful surgery is a product of the interdisciplinary interactions of the surgical team. In the second of this 2-part blog, we explore the mechanics of surgical teamwork to give a new take on the concept of team familiarity. Different ways of doing things are commonplace in surgery, even within the same unit or department.