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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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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 -
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Community PostHow are people getting on with the NatSSIPs? PDF version to share NatSSIPs headline booklet.pdf
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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
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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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Centre for Perioperative Care: What is perioperative care?
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
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Perioperative care – The ‘Holy Grail of healthcare’
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
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Content ArticleThis report teases out the ‘ingredients’ for successful team working at system, organisational, team and individual level. In the COVID-era, multidisciplinary perioperative teams can be at the front and centre of supporting staff to deliver the best possible care. Key messages Our review found that multidisciplinary working is worth prioritising. There is evidence that in some cases multidisciplinary working can: speed access to surgery, if that is an appropriate treatment option improve people’s clinical outcomes, such as reducing complications after surgery reduc
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News ArticlePatients who receive good perioperative care can have fewer complications after surgery, shorter hospital stays, and quicker recovery times, shows a large review of research. The Centre for Perioperative Care, a partnership between the Royal College of Anaesthetists, other medical and nursing royal colleges, and NHS England, reviewed 27 382 articles published between 2000 and 2020 to understand the evidence about perioperative care, eventually focusing on 348 suitable studies. An estimated 10 million or so people have surgery in the NHS in the UK each year, with elective surgery cost
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How I raised awareness of fires in the operating theatre
Kathy Nabbie posted an article in Surgery
Here is the FRAS tool I implemented: Fire risk assessment tool.pdf Other useful resources I found: Scoring_Fire_Risk-2.pdf Surgical Site Fire Triangle.pdf Surgical_Fire_Poster (1).pdf Video: Fire hazard demo by Zaamin Hussain and Mike Reed Demonstration: "Burning Bruce" drives home the reality of surgical fires - article in Outpatient Surgery- Posted
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Patient information for surgical safety: WHO leaflet (2015)
Claire Cox posted an article in Keeping patients safe
