A regional anesthesia-based “swing” operating room model reduces non-operative time in a mixed orthopedic inpatient/outpatient population

Purpose We recently reported on the efficacy of a new “swing” room model involving two alternating ORs and regional anesthesia in increasing operating room (OR) throughput in a dedicated ambulatory orthopedic surgery facility. The purpose of this study was to evaluate this model in a main OR suite setting with typical mixed inpatient/outpatient cases.