Seems good for the happy path, but I wish they would have said something about their plans for if something goes wrong.

Like you already put patient B to sleep but suddenly something went wrong with Patient A.

Will the team continue with patient A and leave patient B to wake up (skip him)?

Is there a backup team and facilities to continue with patient B as scheduled?

There are counter measures but which way did they go?

I find these articles interesting as it seems that non-manufacturing contexts rediscover manufacturing principles constantly

Your critical path includes surgeons, your surgeons are a bottleneck, having minimal but non-zero prepped patients available is an inventory buffer