Overlapping surgery occurs when a surgeon oversees two operations at the same time. Overlapping surgery is thought to improve efficiency as the primary surgeon performs the critical parts of the ...

Bottom Line: The practice of a single surgeon supervising two surgeries in different operating rooms at the same time was associated with increased risk for complications after hip surgery, although ...

A new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery examined overlapping surgery in the ambulatory orthopedic setting. The study authors examined an institutional clinical database to ...

(HealthDay News) — On average, patients are neutral toward or uncomfortable with concurrent or overlapping surgical procedures, according to a study published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

One surgeon can safely be responsible for two overlapping surgeries when critical parts of the procedures are not coincident, a retrospective study from Mayo Clinic suggests. Overlapping surgeries ...