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A local hospital purchased a robot for use in surgery. Surgeons use the robot to perform several different procedures. The robot must be set up and after the procedure the OR must be cleaned up. The table shows the average times for each step:

(TIME IN MINUTES)

A. If the OR is staffed 12 hrs per day, how many procedures per day can be scheduled using constant times?

B. If the hospital uses the number of procedures from Step A to schedule, what percentage of the time will they have to send a patient home because they ran late and could not perform the surgery?

C. If the hospital wants to reduce the number of patients they have to send home and reschedule, what step in the process should they focus on improving?

______ set up

______ procedure time

______clean up

______all steps are equally important

Solution

a) OR is staffed 12 hrs per day

Average TIME   = 75 procedures

so = 12 * 60 =720 minutes

720 minutes / 75=9.6 or 10

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B) 25 + 75   + 15= 115

10/115=8.7%

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c) All the steps are equally important

Because all are interrelated with each other.