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Let’s Move for Surgery: Surgery toolkit
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
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Content ArticleTo make the best of this approach we need to make sure patients and all health care professionals including GPs and multidisciplinary hospital teams work together to: Identify anaemia early in the pathway. Make the patient aware of this and all actions going forward. Find the cause of the anaemia. Use tried and tested treatments for anaemia before surgery. This could include advice on changes in diet, oral treatments such as iron supplements and the use intravenous iron when necessary. Make sure the patient has a personalised treatment programme including provid
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Content ArticleThis guideline includes recommendations on: information for patients measuring temperature warming patients before their operation, including transfer to the operating theatre keeping patients warm during their operation, including ambient temperature in the operating theatre and temperature of intravenous fluids keeping patients warm after their operation
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News ArticleRoy Cairns, 58, was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2019. Twelve months later a tumour was found on his lung. Mr Cairns said taking part in the cancer prehab programme piloted by the Northern Ireland's South Eastern Health Trust after his second diagnosis was a "win-win", not only for himself but also his surgeons. "I think when you get that diagnosis you are left floundering and with prehab the support you get gives you focus and a little bit of control back in your life," he said. Prehabilitation (prehab) means getting ready for cancer treatm
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Content ArticleThe latest expert guidance on routine operations recommends: Within 10 days of your planned surgery date If you have a positive test, or COVID-19 symptoms, elective surgery should not take place because you may be infectious to others (as well as risks to you). Between 10 days and 7 weeks before your planned operation date Reduce your risks of catching COVID-19. If meeting people, consider social distancing, wearing a facemask, opening windows or meeting outdoors. If you test positive or have COVID-19 symptoms: You MUST inform your surgical team. Elective sur
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Content ArticleKey recommendations For Commissioners 1. Investment should be provided to: (a) establish prehabilitation services; (b) enable integrated Care Systems (England), Health Boards (Wales), Regional Health Boards (Scotland) and Health and Social Care Trusts (NI); and (c) expand perioperative services For NHS X 2. Ongoing work to bridge the Primary - secondary care interface should be accelerated. For primary care providers, surgeons, anaesthetists and multidisciplinary teams 3. Shared Decision Making (SDM) should be embedded throughout perioperative pathways. beginning
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Content ArticleThe investigation explored: Safety issues associated with the establishment of surgical services in independent hospitals to support the NHS and in particular the specialist services that are in place to deliver patient care. The assessment of patients prior to surgery to identify their risk and suitability for an operation and where it was to be undertaken; this included identification of patients with frail physical states. Key findings included: National and local NHS organisations had limited understanding of independent hospitals’ capabilities. This resulted in
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CPOC: Perioperative care of people living with frailty
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
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Centre for Perioperative Care newsletter
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Health care
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Content ArticleAnaesthesia is the largest hospital speciality in the UK, involved in a third of all hospital admissions, while perioperative care covers a patient's care from when they first contemplate surgery to their full recovery. The GIRFT national report for anaesthesia and perioperative medicine contains 18 recommendations based on information gathered from the 134 trusts in England with an anaesthesia and perioperative medicine service. It seeks to improve outcomes for patients having surgery in the new COVID-19 environment, including reducing the amount of time they spend in hospital. You
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Content ArticleThe Green Paper project is a nine-month programme of consultation and research about how to advance the perioperative care agenda. It aims to draw CPOC’s diverse community of partners together around a shared set of priorities for change and a vision for the future. The project will draw on a wide evidence base, building on work already happening within CPOC, our partner organisations and across the entire health and care sector. We will also reach out to our community of thousands of health professionals and patients to generate new evidence that will enable us to develop future policy
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PRSB: Shared decision making workshop in March
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
The Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB) are holding a workshop on 4 March to help us develop a shared decision-making standard, so that individuals can be more involved in the decisions that affect their health, care and wellbeing. The online workshop will bring together health and care professionals, patients and system vendors to focus on different topics including diabetes and other long-term conditions, mental health, child health, gynaecology, colorectal cancer, genetic conditions, multi-medications and orthopaedics. We will be asking questions about the way information -
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WHO: What you need to know before and after surgery
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
Before surgery 1. Tell them about your previous surgeries, anesthesia and current medications, including herbal remedies. 2. Tell them if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. 3. Tell them about your health conditions (allergies, diabetes, breathing problems, high blood pressure, anxiety, etc.). 4. Ask about the expected length of your hospital stay. 5. Ask for personal hygiene instructions. 6. Ask them how your pain will be treated. 7. Ask about fluid or food restrictions. 8. Ask what you should avoid doing before surgery. 9. Make sure that the correc -
Content ArticleA significant backlog of elective surgical cases has built up during the COVID-19 crisis. The freeze on elective surgery has produced a waiting list that may take years to clear. In the US, the CDC has issued guidelines that "facilities should establish a prioritization policy committee consisting of surgery, anesthesia and nursing leadership to develop a prioritization strategy appropriate to the immediate patient needs". According to the CDC, this committee should work around 'objective priority scoring'. The MeNTS (Medically-Necessary, Time-Sensitive Procedures) instrument is a
