Quebec researchers who secretly recorded how often staff entered or left an operating room during 100 hip or knee replacements — procedures that require a “particularly aseptic environment” — found the doors were opened as many as 176 times in a single surgery.
Overall, there were an average of 71 door openings per surgery. With the average surgery lasting 112 minutes, this means a door opened every minute and a half.
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