The study examined the practice for nearly 3,000 cardiothoracic surgeries performed in hospitals and found metrics such as operation duration, starting and closing times and surgical outcomes were unchanged.
While the study was performed in a hospital setting, it may have far-reaching implications for surgical cases performed elsewhere; it is one of the first studies to provide hard data on the safety and efficacy of having one surgeon supervise two ORs for simultaneous surgeries, according to a report from Medscape.
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