... units are being challenged to provide timely and quality care, despite limited resources and an ever-growing patient population. Decreasing procedure time is unlikely to create sufficient time savings and may compromise quality. Non-procedural factors, such as room turnover, are important contributors...

... traditional (speculum with or without tenaculum) hysteroscopy in terms of pain score and procedure time. METHODS: Three hundred patients were randomized in two groups: Group A, diagnostic hysteroscopy with vaginoscopic approach (150 patients) and Group B, diagnostic hysteroscopy with traditional approach (150...

..., there was no significant difference between the mean procedure times for laparoscopy or laparotomy, but the variability was significantly greater with endoscopy. Looking at the individual procedures, the mean procedure times were similar for the two routes of surgery with the exception of hysterectomy which took...

..., the range of operating times is great. The relative lack of predictability in procedure times means that the efficient utilization of fixed theatre sessions is difficult. laparoscopic surgery procedure time The operative coding sheets of 1000 consecutive women, who underwent elective (n = 798...

... and steady manner, thus reducing the amount of pain, tissue damage, and potentially fluoroscopy time. vascular sheath stent graft catheter friction tortuous procedure time Balloons Catheter Drainage catheter Slow and steady method advancing devices through tight or tortuous anatomy Vascular sheaths...