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Gynecologic Oncology • Ovarian Cancer
How do you logistically incorporate a "scope and score" of a patient with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer into a busy OR schedule?
If you determine the patient is a candidate for PDS, do you schedule them to return to the OR at a short interval or do you proceed with surgery that same day? Do you schedule other cases, knowing you may end up doing a lengthy primary debulking procedure?
Answer from: at Community Practice
This can definitely be tricky. In my practice I typically will scope and score the same day as I plan to do their debulking surgery, booking cases like this as the last case of the day. While I do have block time in the OR it is hard to take a patient for scope and score to then return in short int...
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