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

Incision

Benefits of Familiarity In the operating room (OR), a core multidisciplinary team is responsible for the delivery of each procedure, working together on a shift-based and/or specialty-based rota. A similar idea to this is through surgical “preference cards” that list the supplies a surgeon requests for each procedure.

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

Incision

Surgical care is the product of numerous interprofessional interactions, reflected in several key multidisciplinary teams. Surgical managers are frequently required to form ad hoc teams with members who do not work consistently together. And what lessons can we take from these to improve and support our own?