TY - JOUR AU - John-Baptiste, Ava PY - 2018 TI - Who really benefits from surgical tray reduction? JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 10, Supplement 17 (June 20, 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2018 KW - N2 - Cichos and colleagues (1) describe applying the process of lean to surgical trays at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. Through a consensus process, three surgeons in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery identified the least number of instruments required for mediastinoscopy, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, robotic thoracic surgery and thoracotomy, achieving reductions of 75%, 62%, 61% and 44%, respectively. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/20940