Lean Surgery—What Can We Learn from Toyota?

ILean Surgery will review the key aspects of ‘Lean’ production, specifically the seven wastesSeven wastes, and map them onto surgical processes. The wastes include motion, inventory, waiting, defects, overprocessing, overproduction and transportation. Some map onto surgery better than others and there is some overlap. How do we practiceKaizen ‘Kaizen’ or continuousSurgery improvement improvementContinuous improvement and aim to get surgical manoeuvres right first time? Having learned about the wastes you will be encouraged to review your own surgerySurgery in the light of these and explore how you might develop your technique in a ‘Lean’ direction improving your efficiency and reducing errors.