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Content ArticleThe Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) is calling for action to be taken after a recent never events report suggests little progress has been made to prevent errors within the perioperative environment.
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A day in the life of an Operating Department Practitioner
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
There are three main aspects of the Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) role; namely, anaesthetics, surgery and post-anaesthetic care. There are some overarching qualities that are necessary for any ODP. These include excellent communication skills including verbal, non-verbal and written. Treating patients with dignity and respect, maintaining confidentiality throughout.- Posted
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The role of the operating department practitioner
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
The operating department practitioner (ODP) participates in the assessment of the patient prior to surgery and provides individualised care. The College of Operating Department Practitioners provides an overview of what an ODP does. -
Content ArticleAn educational session from The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) dedicated to the dangers of noise and distraction in healthcare with a possible solution, Below Ten Thousand. Below Ten Thousand is a language-based safety tool for any clinical arena where 'noise and distraction' is a problem, and where high performance teams need to quickly gain 'situational awareness' and ‘directed focus’ in order to successfully navigate the perils of acute healthcare whilst providing first class interventions.
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Content Article17 September 2020 marks the second annual World Patient Safety Day. The theme this year is 'Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety'. In the run up to this special event, Patient Safety Learning are publishing a series of interviews with staff from across the health and care system to highlight key issues in staff safety and gain a clearer idea of the kind of change that needs to take place to keep staff, and ultimately patients, safe. In this joint interview, Patient Safety Learning speaks to Rob Tomlinson, a nurse in the operating theatres at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, and Peter Smith, now retired after enjoying a thirty-year career in operating theatre nursing. Rob and Pete discuss why staff need to feel both physically and psychologically safe in the operating theatre and empowered to speak up, and how the Below Ten Thousand language tool has made a huge difference in creating a safer operating environment.
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Content ArticleThis US study, published in Pediatrics, found that even among apparently healthy children, being African American is strongly associated with a higher risk of postoperative complications and mortality. Mechanisms underlying the established racial differences in postoperative outcomes may not be fully explained by the racial variation in preoperative comorbidity.
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Content ArticleAccording to the National Institutes of Health (January 2019), more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids every day. Among these deaths are patients in the hospital setting, recovering from surgical procedures or undergoing sedation, who are often prescribed opioids such as morphine and oxycodone to manage pain – a necessity for healthy and comfortable recovery. But at certain doses, these drugs can also cause respiratory failure, and, because each patient is different, there is no one dose that is 'right' or 'wrong'. Hospitals must take action to ensure their staff are aware of these risks, and put protocols in place to prevent patient deaths. The authors of this US article, published by Medium, offer recommendations for improving patient safety in this area.
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Content ArticleA candid account from a healthcare professional on how it feels to have to tell a patient in intensive care that their treatment is to be delayed. Part of the Guardian newspaper's Blood, sweat and tears series.
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Content ArticleThis document sets out Barts Health Local Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (LocSSIPs) based on the National National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs). It includes eight sequential steps that are reinforced with clear organisational standards. These standards are a minimum, based on national best practice, to improve safety. They apply to all staff and all services that perform invasive procedures at Barts Health NHS Trust.
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Medical negligence: Diathermy burns
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Legal matters
If you have suffered a diathermy burn during surgery, you will probably have a number of questions that need to be answered. For example, why did you wake up from surgery with a burn on your skin? Is this the fault of your surgeon? And is there any action you can take?- Posted
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Content ArticleSurgical fires are fires that occur in, on or around a patient undergoing a medical or surgical procedure. Surgical fires are rare but serious events. The ECRI Institute estimates that approximately 550 to 600 surgical fires occur each year in the USA. The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) is a collaborating partner of the FDA Preventing Surgical Fires Initiative. This initiative was launched to increase awareness of factors that contribute to surgical fires, disseminate surgical fire prevention tools, and promote the adoption of risk reduction practices throughout the healthcare community.
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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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Electrosurgery. Managing the risk (September 2004)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
This poster from the National Association of Theatre Nurses (ATN) aims to give an overview of electrosurgery in the perioperative setting. It identifies and defines some of the common forms of electrosurgery used in perioperative practice and identifies some of the hazards that can be associated with these products.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe hospital environment is both unique and unusual in that electrical equipment is directly applied to the human body. From this contact either capacitive or resistive coupling may lead to current flow and harm. Surgical diathermy, patient monitoring and imaging, although universal, are often misunderstood, and many clinicians are ignorant of their principles and hazards. Electrical equipment in hospital therefore has the potential to lead to serious injury or death. This article published in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine outlines the basic physics of electricity, in particular the principles behind diathermy, the hazards posed by it and by other devices and the various measures available to reduce the risk of these.
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Content ArticleThis report from Saaiq and colleagues, published in the Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters, highlights three cases of iatrogenic electrocautery burns with review of the relevant published literature. The aim is to prompt awareness among surgeons and theatre staff regarding this avoidable hazard associated with the equipment frequently used for the purpose of electrocautery. This may serve as a reminder to professionals to be cautious about the pitfalls that lead to such preventable injuries.
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Content ArticlePatient safety groups consider surgical fires “never events,” incidents that can be avoided entirely with organisational checks and balances. Yet, the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) has handled dozens of lawsuits and regulatory complaints involving surgical burns in recent years. According to a review of 54 cases of perioperative burns between 2012 and 2016, almost a third involved surgical fires, while the rest involved burns from surgical equipment and chemicals used in surgery. Many patients were left scarred, disfigured and psychologically traumatised. Fifteen percent were severely harmed, with airway damage or full-thickness burns destroying the sensory nerves and all layers of the skin.
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Remove central lines supine - animation (2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
The PatientSafe Network is a registered non for profit charity in Australia. It has been developed by front line healthcare staff and is for anyone who wants to improve patient safety. Their combined commitment is to improve patient safety through the transparent review of medical mistakes and the generation of transparent networked projects. Hundreds of patients die every year from avoidable central line related air emboli. This animation explains what air emboli are and how they may be avoided.- Posted
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HSJ. Roundtable: Infection prevention and control
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
A Health Service Journal (HSJ) and Mölnlycke roundtable discusses how the NHS can improve infection control and prevention in the operating theatre – and the benefits of greater focus on this area -
Content ArticleWaste in the operating theatre costs money and is harmful to the environment. Reducing waste in the NHS is paramount if we want to reduce costs and help save the planet!
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Content ArticleFor over three decades, patients, consultants and perioperative staff have been exposed to diathermy tissue smoke in all operating hospital theatres. This smoke is called plaque and, when inhaled, is the same as smoking cigarettes. Research shows that inhalation of smoke from one gram of cauterised tissue is equal to smoking six cigarettes. This smoke is also cancerous and can mutate to other organs of the body just like cigarettes. Read my personal view of the harmful effects of diathermy smoke published in the Journal of Perioperative Practice, and also watch the short video kindly made for me by Knowlex UK.
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Content ArticleReacting to a never event is difficult and often embarrassing for staff involved. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has demonstrated that treating staff with respect after a never event, creates an open culture that encourages problem solving and service improvement. The approach has allowed learning to be shared and paved the way for the trust to be the first in the UK to launch the patient centric behavioural noise reduction strategy ‘Below ten thousand’. Published in the Journal of Perioperative Practice.
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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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Below Ten Thousand video
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Processes
Below Ten Thousand is a language-based safety tool for any clinical arena where 'noise and distraction' is a problem, and where high performance teams need to quickly gain 'situational awareness' and ‘directed focus’ in order to successfully navigate the perils of acute healthcare whilst providing first class interventions.- Posted
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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 ArticleThe RCNi (the publishing company of the Royal College of Nursing) have brought together a selection of their most popular articles on the topic of sepsis from across their journals to inform your practice. Sepsis remains a significant cause of death – it is estimated that 44,000 people die from ‘the silent killer’ every year. RCNi has a wide range of resources available to help nurses improve diagnosis and early management of the condition.
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