is advisable to include departments involved with patient entry points into the open heart process. These departments are usually the inpatient medical cardiac units registration area cardiovascular surgeon office and cardiac cath lab. Development of standardized preoperative open heart surgery orders help to create common practice routines that can reduce errors improve the staff education and reduce organizational costs by eliminating unnecessary tests and improving staff efficiencies. These benefits outweigh the challenge of standardizing preoperative physician orders. The orders set should be approved by the appropriate ...
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