How do you logistically incorporate a "scope and score" of a patient with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer into a busy OR schedule?
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Gynecologic Oncology · Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
This can definitely be tricky. In my practice, I typically 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 a short inter...