Surgical Workflow Intelligence

Minutes Saved.
Outcomes Protected.

Every minute recovered in the OR is a minute a patient is not under anesthesia. Exstros delivers OR operational consulting, CPD education, and patented instrument identification technology, purpose-built for rural and independent hospitals. We put instrument knowledge into software and every tray's location on your dashboard, because time saved in surgery is not just money. It is safety.

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$30 to $100Cost per OR minute

7 yrsTrayPakk established

UNMCCollege of Dentistry, live

Live Deployment

TrayLearn is live at the UNMC College of Dentistry. Same rigor, priced for rural ORs.

The Challenge

The OR problem starts before the procedure

Instrument errors, undertrained staff, and inconsistent workflows cost hospitals time and money every single day. They also cost patients time under anesthesia, and every additional minute carries clinical risk. Exstros closes the gap.

10 min avg delay per instrument error

Every tray issue adds OR minutes at $30 to $100 or more per minute, and keeps a patient under anesthesia longer than necessary.

20% of OR waste from setup issues

Setup and instrument errors account for a significant share of preventable OR downtime.

3 to 6 months SPD onboarding time

High turnover forces repeated, expensive onboarding cycles. TrayPakk puts the instrument knowledge into the software, so any tech contributes from day one.

40% of hospital revenue from the OR

The OR is the financial engine of most hospitals and the highest-stakes room in the building. Inefficiency there affects the balance sheet and the patient equally.

The Rural Advantage

Built for rural ORs,
not bloated for enterprise

Traditional tray management and tracking systems were built for massive urban research hospitals. They require heavy upfront hardware costs, exhaustive IT implementations, and complicated rip-and-replace overhauls that drain your budget and your bandwidth. Rural, critical access, and independent hospitals deserve enterprise-grade tools without the enterprise bloat. The patient on the table in a 15-bed CAH is owed the same minutes as the patient in a 700-bed academic center.

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No Heavy IT Lift

Our cloud-based SaaS means you are up and running in days, not months. No servers to provision, no dedicated IT staff required, no eighteen-month rollout.

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Solves High Turnover

Legacy systems assume you have a stable, veteran staff. Exstros trains your team as they work, turning day-one hires into productive techs immediately.

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Flexible Cash Flow

Staged implementation pricing spread over 4 months with no interest, designed specifically for independent hospital budgets. Budget should never be the reason a patient waits longer on the table.

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Return on Investment

Minutes recovered, risk reduced

The dollar figure below is the easy part to measure. The harder part to measure is what those same minutes mean clinically. Shorter anesthesia exposure. Shorter open-wound time. Fewer cases pushed to the end of a fatigued day. Based on conservative industry benchmarks, here is what Exstros recovers for a hospital of your size.

$187K

Estimated minimum annual savings

$1M+

Estimated maximum annual savings

$17.5K

Starting implementation cost

Day 1

When new SPD techs contribute with TrayPakk

Your OR Savings Calculator

Adjust to your facility, or tap any number to type it in. We assume 10 minutes recovered per case at your OR rate.

OR Cost per Minute

$ / min

$30tap number to type • $100

Cases per Day

cases / day

1 casetap number to type • 20

Estimated Annual Savings

$412,500

10 min × $55/min × 3 cases × 250 days

Where the 10 minutes comes from

Assumes 10 minutes saved by eliminating mid-procedure instrument hunts, removing count discrepancies at case setup, and cutting room turnover time through tray tracking. Across 250 operating days per year. Results are estimates for planning purposes. Contact Exstros for a facility-specific analysis.

The number this chart cannot show: those same 10 minutes are 10 fewer minutes of anesthesia exposure and 10 fewer minutes of open-wound time for every patient on your schedule. Prolonged operative time is a recognized risk factor in surgical outcomes. The savings are real. The clinical value is bigger.

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Long-form posts on SPD turnover, OR cost per minute, instrument identification, and rural hospital operations. Written for Directors of Surgical Services, SPD managers, and CNOs.

● OR efficiency research and benchmarks

● Exstros Scientific development updates

● Rural and critical access hospital advocacy

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Minutes Saved.Outcomes Protected.