Using management techniques borrowed from Toyota, the orthopaedic team worked out that to fit in all of their patients for the day they had to make the first incision in theatre at 9.30am, known as the "knife to skin" time.
Skin to skin time: total operating time from skin incision to closure of the skin wounds.
Although the skin to skin time was faster, the OR time did not differ significantly.
Data collected intraoperatively included the delay of surgery, duration of surgery (skin-to-skin time), fluoroscopic time, number of transfusions, and occurrence of any intraoperative complications.
Person et al. reported their skin-to-skin time for the RALRH (with or without sentinel node) and found also a rapid decrease of surgery time [19].
The median skin to skin time was significantly shorter in the robot group compared to the conventional group (120 versus 145 min p < 0.001) (Table 3).
This is also stated by Seamon et al. who looked in detail at theatre time, skin-to-skin time and console times for the robotic hysterectomy with lymphadenectomy for endometrial cancer.
A multivariate linear regression analysis of the skin to skin time showed a significant 18-min difference favoring the robot TLH group (robot-assisted TLH 92 m, conventional TLH 110 m, p 0.001).
Supporting physiology following the birth begins with immediate skin to skin time for mother and baby.
One of the twins was on top of me for some 'skin to skin' time and she found my nipple.
