Operating Room Leadership and Perioperative Practice Management

Effective leadership is critical to ensuring safety, efficiency and maximum productivity in the operating room (OR). This practical, evidence-based book unpicks the dynamics of a successful OR environment to underline the key techniques for management of policies, systems, staff members and teams. Fully updated to include recent clinical guidelines, the book provides the 'A-Z' of OR management, including sections on metrics, scheduling, human resource management, leadership principles, economics, quality assurance, recovery and ambulatory practice. New chapters include future healthcare models, emergency preparedness and budgets amongst other topics. Written by authors with unrivalled experience in the field, chapters are laid out in an easy and clinically helpful format to assist learning, and real-life case studies cover seventy-three different clinically relevant pain topics. This book is an essential guide for anyone working in the OR including anaesthesiologists, surgeons, nurses, and administrators.

Alan David Kaye, a Rhodes Scholar state selection and national runner-up as an undergraduate, completed two B.S. degrees, one in Psychology and one in Biology, and his medical degree from the University of Arizona, School of Medicine, along with a Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the Tulane School of Medicine in 1997. He did his residency training at Harvard University's Massachusetts General Hospital and at Tulane Medical Center, along with a fellowship in Pain Management at Texas Tech Medical School, in Lubbock. He is triple board certified and for six years (1999-2005), he served as Chairman and Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology at Texas Tech Medical Health Sciences Center and Professor of Pharmacology at Texas Tech Medical Center. In 2005, he became Chairman and Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology, Director of Interventional Pain Medicine, and Professor of Pharmacology at the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is one of the most prolific publishers in the field of anesthesiology worldwide, is a noted book editor and national/international lecturer, is a member of the Anesthesia and Analgesics section of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is the editor-in-chief of the highly regarded journal Pain Physician.