DENVER—A new investigation has reaffirmed that anesthesia handovers are a potential cause for concern in the OR.
The retrospective multicenter study concluded that intraoperative handovers are associated with an increased incidence of postoperative complications, particularly hospital readmissions and prolonged hospital length of stay (LOS).
According to study author MaÍra Rudolph, MD, a research fellow at Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City, intraoperative handovers in