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Allocating Time Units Between Providers

Published on Fri Apr 12, 2019

Question: A non-medically directed CRNA took the patient into the operating room. He placed the patient on monitors, intubated, and induced the patient. Then the anesthesiologist came into the room and placed an arterial line and CVP before the case started. How do we calculate the time the physician took to place the lines? North Carolina Subscriber Answer: Since the [...]
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