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Content ArticleSam Goodhand is a Anaesthetic Registrar who I had the great pleasure in working with in Brighton University Hospitals NHS Trust. He produced these action/prompt cards for health professionals who attend and take part in RSI's. These are great to attach to your ID badge. This ensures you always have one at hand in those tricky situations.
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Content ArticleFrom pre-operative care, through the anaesthetic and surgical phases to post-operation and recovery, this easy-to-read, quick-reference resource uses the unique at a Glance format to quickly convey need-to-know information in both images and text, allowing vital knowledge to be revised promptly and efficiently.
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Content ArticleIn January 2017, I read an article in Outpatient Surgery involving an elderly patient in the US who suffered multiple burns following the use of chlorohexidine bottled alcoholic prep. The Oregon woman filed a million-dollar lawsuit against the Oregon Outpatient Surgery Center in Tigard, Ore., saying she suffered severe burns when her face caught on fire during an electrocautery procedure. Having read this tragic story and escalated it to my theatre manager and colleagues, I decided to design and evaluate a FRAS (Fire Risk Assessment Score) and use it as part of the WHO Surgical Checklist at "time out" to raise awareness of fires in operating theatres.
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Content ArticleDr Michael Farquhar, Consultant in Sleep Medicine at Evelina London Children's Hospital, gives an ARIES talk on how fatigue affects the body and the potential impact on anaesthetists and patients.
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Content ArticlePostoperative delirium is common and has multiple adverse consequences. Guidelines recommend routine screening for postoperative delirium beginning in the post-anaesthesia care unit. The 4 A’s test (4AT) is a widely used assessment tool for delirium; however, there are no studies evaluating its use in the post-anaesthesia care unit. Saller et al. evaluated the performance of the 4AT in the post-anaesthesia care unit in a tertiary German medical centre. The findings published in Anaesthesia suggest that the 4AT is an effective and robust instrument for delirium detection in the post-anaesthesia care unit. suggest that the 4AT is an effective and robust instrument for delirium detection in the post-anaesthesia care unit.
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10,000 feet - Patient Safety in the operating theatre
Claire Cox posted an article in Process improvement
This video by theatre staff from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust explains how the 10,000 feet initiative promotes patient safety within the operating theatre. -
Content ArticlePete Smith is nothing without the energy and commitment of the amazing people who surround him. Increasing the technical skill of a healthcare clinician makes for incremental change. Improve the culture within which they work, think and communicate and suddenly quantum change is possible. Two perioperative nurses from a regional hospital in Victoria, Australia, innovated a simple, elegant solution to the problem of noise and distraction in the operating room. Pete Smith was one of them.
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Content Article"It’s time to halt, take a break, and redraw the relationship between patient care and self-care. Self-care isn’t an optional luxury. It must sit at the heart of what we do, to ensure our teams can continue to rise to the challenges of working in the 21st century NHS, to give our patients the best of both ourselves, and the organisation so many of us are proud to be a part of."
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Content ArticleThis 15 minute video from the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust gives an introduction to what human factors is within healthcare.
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Content ArticlePotentially preventable adverse events remain a formidable cause of patient harm and health care expenditure despite advances in systems-based risk-reduction strategies. This quality improvement study from Suliburk et al., published in JAMA Network Open, analysed the incidence of human performance deficiencies during the provision of surgical care to identify opportunities to enhance patient safety.
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#TheatreCapChallenge: Where’s the evidence?
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
PatientSafe Network in Australia has been promoting the theatre cap challenge across the world. By wearing your name on your theatre cap it can improve team work and patient safety. The PatientSafe Network is a registered non for profit charity. It has been developed by front line healthcare staff and is for anyone to use – patients, relatives, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, healthcare managers, equipment and system developers, insurers – who wants to improve patient safety. -
Content ArticlePolicy to date has mostly focused on the role of 'whistleblowers' in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 hours of ethnographic observation and 98 interviews across 19 English intensive care units (ICUs), Tarrant et al., in a paper published in Social Science & Medicine, studied how personnel gave voice to concerns about patient safety or poor practice.
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Invasive procedure safety checklist: ITU INTUBATION
Claire Cox posted an article in Process improvement
This checklist was devised by the Intensive Care Society and the Faculty of Intensive care Medicine and is ready for you to download and use. -
Content ArticleThis study from Schnittker et al., published in Anaesthesia, aimed to identify which human factors were enablers and/or barriers to anaesthesia teams during airway management challenges.
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Content ArticleResuscitation in the pre-hospital setting is very challenging. To give the best possible care, teamwork needs to be optimal. Tom Evens, an emergency physician with Londons Air Ambulance and former coach of the Olympic UK rowing team, shows us how performance psychology will help you in providing critical care at the roadside. Presented at the ResusNL Conference 2019.
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Content ArticleWas a lack of situational awareness a contributing factor in the outcome of this 'routine operation'? In this human factors video, Martin Bromiley, a pilot, explains what happened that day and what measures need to be in place to prevent other similar incidents.
