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1 2.13 Copyright UKCS #

2 Management of Surgical Emergencies Part 1 : Critical Care
Quality Control in Critical Care Copyright UKCS #

3 SURGICAL AUDIT What is Audit? Copyright UKCS #

4 What is Audit as a Research technique?
What is Clinical Audit? “A process that improves the quality of patient care through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and supports changes in practice to meet those criteria.” What is Audit as a Research technique? “Assessing practice honestly enough to notice differences in outcome and report such data.” Copyright UKCS #

5 What is Research and what is Audit?
Audit = ask “what happens”? Research = ask “why” or “how” does it happen Copyright UKCS #

6 Clinical Audit is the link from Surgical Research to Safe Surgery.
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7 Advantages of Clinical Audit:
It is cheap. It does not need ethics approval (you still need to write a proposal). It is based on clinical work. It improves practice and patient care. It makes you used to analysing clinical outcomes and reporting these honestly. It takes you away from a “blame culture” for mistakes and teaches you to analyse the cause of errors. It can improve patient safety. Copyright UKCS #

8 Questions to ask in Critical Care:
What preventable causes of mortality and morbidity can happen in our unit? How do we monitor or measure for these? How do we collect reliable data? How do we respond to the data? Copyright UKCS #

9 Causes of preventable morbidity and mortality:
Hospital acquired infections. Errors with medicine. Venous thromo-embolism. Poor communication and handover. Copyright UKCS #

10 Hospital Acquired Infections (record all these for all patients):
MRSA Clostridium difficile Pneumonia Catheter related Wound infection CVP lines Peripheral venous catheters Copyright UKCS #

11 Central and Peripheral vein catheters
Central catheters Insertion bundle = Checklist including operator competent, full documentation, strict aseptic technique, site selection Maintenance bundle = Daily checks of requirement, ensure dressing intact and changed at 7 days, any manoeuvre aseptic technique Copyright UKCS #

12 Central vein catheters: Insertion checklist:

13 Peripheral vein catheters:
Maintenance: CHECK DAILY Ask: is vein catheter really necessary? Remove if any extravasation / inflammation Check dressings: Intact? Clean? Remove if >72 hours Hand hygiene before and after every time you handle a vein catheter or dressing. Copyright UKCS #

14 Medicine Reconciliation
Provide safe and effective medicines management systems for : High risk medicines – e.g. anticoagulation High risk processes – transfer from one point of care to another Copyright UKCS #

15 What is the Aim of Medicine Reconciliation?
Safer prescribing Reduced adverse events Improved communication Improved quality of care Improved patient safety Copyright UKCS #

16 High risk processes – transfer of care
Accurate drug history is essential for safe prescribing Lack of knowledge of patients’ medication at transition points = important cause of adverse events Check drugs at every transfer; Not just on admission Copyright UKCS #

17 Improving prescribing on admission
Complete medication history – write full list of all medicines on admission + allergies When writing Kardex/drug chart check against drug history in notes AND with patient not just rewriting of previous chart Document a plan for each medication how long, switch from IV to oral antibiotics when to review AND who will review Copyright UKCS #

18 VTE prophylaxis protocols
Standardised assessment of risk for all Age, other factors, procedure type Low risk – early ambulation Moderate risk Low dose heparin/low molecular weight heparin/ aspirin/ elastic stockings/ intermittent pneumatic compression Copyright UKCS #

19 VTE prophylaxis protocols 2
High risk General- Low dose heparin/low molecular weight heparin plus elastic stockings/ intermittent pneumatic compression IVC filter if proven clot/ high risk trauma Consider post-discharge treatment Copyright UKCS #

20 Hand Hygiene and Dress Code
Everyone, every time for every patient Establish reliable practices Staff knowledge Infection Transmission Hand hygiene and washing technique Copyright UKCS #

21 Hand Hygiene and Dress Code 2
Ensure at the point of care Hand washing facilities Soap Alcohol gel Gloves Monitor and feedback Infection data Hand hygiene compliance Copyright UKCS #

22 Hand Hygiene and Dress Code 3
Create a culture that supports reliable hand hygiene Empower all to be actively involved Dress code Bare below the elbows (except wedding ring) No ties Aprons as appropriate Copyright UKCS #

23 Poor Communication: Proper handover between teams:
Shifts After on-call Weekends Morning team meetings. Write notes of all encounters with every patient (in case notes and/or on bed charts). Copyright UKCS #

24 Summary: How to respond:
Have the will to do things right. Buy-in from ALL: surgeons, anaesthetists/intensivists, nurses, therapists, pharmacy, managers. Discuss all results openly without finger-pointing (Escape the culture of blame). Publish results where it can be seen (ON THE WALL). Clinical leadership. Recognise and EMPOWER all team members (so that a student nurse can remind a surgeon to clean his hands) Copyright UKCS #

25 Questions? Copyright UKCS #

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