The World Health Organisation is a global tool to ensure safety in surgery. The principles and procedures are described for how to implement it in your organisation.
This document discusses surgical safety and errors. It notes that 234 million operations are performed globally each year, with 1 million deaths and 7 million disabling complications, over 50% of which are preventable. Common errors include wrong site, patient, procedure and retained instruments. Causes include lack of protocols, training, supervision, staffing issues and communication breakdowns. Aviation safety practices are presented as a model, with mandatory reporting and a non-punitive culture. The WHO surgical safety checklist is summarized, which was tested in 8 countries and significantly reduced complications and death rates. Universal adoption of checklists and a culture of safety are recommended to improve patient outcomes during surgery.
This presentation was prepared by RUTAYISIRE François Xavier and ISHIMWE Diane, Medical students in Year 4(Doctorate 2) at University of RWANDA school of medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Medicine and Surgery. we did the work under supervision of Dr Ntakiyiruta Georges,Mmed,FCSECSA
Purpose of the call:
•Review current data and state of the SSCL
•Discuss the role of communications and team work in patient safety
•Discuss and define how we can measure the effectiveness of the SSCL.
Read more and watch the webinar recording: http://bit.ly/1sXDqaZ
The document provides an operating theatre (OT) checklist to help ensure patient safety during surgical procedures. It lists several checks that the operating team should complete in the ward and theatre before surgery, including correctly identifying the patient, marking the intended surgical site, checking for allergies and previous medical history, and confirming critical patient information has been exchanged. The goal is for the team to operate on the right patient and site, take appropriate precautions, and communicate effectively to safely conduct the surgery and prevent errors.
1. Safety is everybody’s business. According the Hippocratic oath from 5th century : “ Never do harm to anyone” Safer Surgery can be defined as a reduction in avoidable harm to a surgical patient
2. It is a part of medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental technique on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition. Surgical team: 1. Surgeon 2. Surgeon’s assistance 3. Anesthetist 4. Scrub nurse 5. Scouting nurse 6. Surgical technologist
3. Time or duration when patient admitted and discharge after completion of surgery. So, surgical safety has broadly included in different phases: 1. Preoperative(Diagnosis, investigation) 2. Per operative 3. Postoperative(Up to discharge)
4. 1. Adverse events: An incident which result in harm to the patient. 2. Near Miss: An incident which could resulted in unwanted harm but did not. 3. No-harm events: An incident that occur and reach to the patient but result in no injury.
5. An article in the Gurdian newspaper UK in March 2013 claimed that “five worst medical” nightmares a Pt faces, three related to surgery: 1. Wrong site surgery 2. Wrong patient surgery 3. Retained instruments and swabs The rate of harm in surgical patient is unknown but probably occur in about 10% surgical patient, though much of this harm will be minor.
6. 1. Patients themselves. 2. Healthcare professional 3. System failure. 4. Medical complexity
7. Patients Themselves 1. A variety of presentation. 2. Differing co-morbidities 3. Differing response to treatment 4. Patients are reluctant to speak up. 5. Refuse to co-operate 6. Hide and seek
8. Healthcare professional 1. Inadequate Pt assessment(delay or error in Diagnosis) 2. Failure to use or interpret appropriate test 3. Error in performance of an operation and test. 4. Inadequate monitoring or follow-up. 5. Deficient training or experience 6. Fatigue, overwork or time pressure. 7. Personal or psychological factor i.e. drug abuse or depression. 8. Lack of recognition of the danger of medical errors.
9. System failure 1. Poor communication between healthcare provider. 2. Inadequate staffing level 3. Overreliance on investigation 4. Lack of coordination at handover 5. Drug similarities. 6. Equipment failure due to lack of skilled operators. 7. Inadequate system to report and review patient safety incident.
10. Medical complexity 1. Advance and new technologies(laparoscopic, robotic surgery) 2. Potent drug and their side effects and interaction. 3. Working environment- Surgical ICU, HDU and Operation theatre
11. Surgery is one of the most complex health intervention to deliver. More than 100 million people worldwide require surgical treatment every year for different reason. Great Professor of Surgery Sir Alfred Cuschieri and other describes surgical errors in different categories that committed by the surgeons during care of the Patients.
12. 1. Diagnosis and management erro
The correct application of the safety check steps in our routine theatre operations and procedures will greatly reduce surgically related mortality and morbidity.
This document discusses surgical safety and errors. It notes that 234 million operations are performed globally each year, with 1 million deaths and 7 million disabling complications, over 50% of which are preventable. Common errors include wrong site, patient, procedure and retained instruments. Causes include lack of protocols, training, supervision, staffing issues and communication breakdowns. Aviation safety practices are presented as a model, with mandatory reporting and a non-punitive culture. The WHO surgical safety checklist is summarized, which was tested in 8 countries and significantly reduced complications and death rates. Universal adoption of checklists and a culture of safety are recommended to improve patient outcomes during surgery.
This presentation was prepared by RUTAYISIRE François Xavier and ISHIMWE Diane, Medical students in Year 4(Doctorate 2) at University of RWANDA school of medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Medicine and Surgery. we did the work under supervision of Dr Ntakiyiruta Georges,Mmed,FCSECSA
Purpose of the call:
•Review current data and state of the SSCL
•Discuss the role of communications and team work in patient safety
•Discuss and define how we can measure the effectiveness of the SSCL.
Read more and watch the webinar recording: http://bit.ly/1sXDqaZ
The document provides an operating theatre (OT) checklist to help ensure patient safety during surgical procedures. It lists several checks that the operating team should complete in the ward and theatre before surgery, including correctly identifying the patient, marking the intended surgical site, checking for allergies and previous medical history, and confirming critical patient information has been exchanged. The goal is for the team to operate on the right patient and site, take appropriate precautions, and communicate effectively to safely conduct the surgery and prevent errors.
1. Safety is everybody’s business. According the Hippocratic oath from 5th century : “ Never do harm to anyone” Safer Surgery can be defined as a reduction in avoidable harm to a surgical patient
2. It is a part of medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental technique on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition. Surgical team: 1. Surgeon 2. Surgeon’s assistance 3. Anesthetist 4. Scrub nurse 5. Scouting nurse 6. Surgical technologist
3. Time or duration when patient admitted and discharge after completion of surgery. So, surgical safety has broadly included in different phases: 1. Preoperative(Diagnosis, investigation) 2. Per operative 3. Postoperative(Up to discharge)
4. 1. Adverse events: An incident which result in harm to the patient. 2. Near Miss: An incident which could resulted in unwanted harm but did not. 3. No-harm events: An incident that occur and reach to the patient but result in no injury.
5. An article in the Gurdian newspaper UK in March 2013 claimed that “five worst medical” nightmares a Pt faces, three related to surgery: 1. Wrong site surgery 2. Wrong patient surgery 3. Retained instruments and swabs The rate of harm in surgical patient is unknown but probably occur in about 10% surgical patient, though much of this harm will be minor.
6. 1. Patients themselves. 2. Healthcare professional 3. System failure. 4. Medical complexity
7. Patients Themselves 1. A variety of presentation. 2. Differing co-morbidities 3. Differing response to treatment 4. Patients are reluctant to speak up. 5. Refuse to co-operate 6. Hide and seek
8. Healthcare professional 1. Inadequate Pt assessment(delay or error in Diagnosis) 2. Failure to use or interpret appropriate test 3. Error in performance of an operation and test. 4. Inadequate monitoring or follow-up. 5. Deficient training or experience 6. Fatigue, overwork or time pressure. 7. Personal or psychological factor i.e. drug abuse or depression. 8. Lack of recognition of the danger of medical errors.
9. System failure 1. Poor communication between healthcare provider. 2. Inadequate staffing level 3. Overreliance on investigation 4. Lack of coordination at handover 5. Drug similarities. 6. Equipment failure due to lack of skilled operators. 7. Inadequate system to report and review patient safety incident.
10. Medical complexity 1. Advance and new technologies(laparoscopic, robotic surgery) 2. Potent drug and their side effects and interaction. 3. Working environment- Surgical ICU, HDU and Operation theatre
11. Surgery is one of the most complex health intervention to deliver. More than 100 million people worldwide require surgical treatment every year for different reason. Great Professor of Surgery Sir Alfred Cuschieri and other describes surgical errors in different categories that committed by the surgeons during care of the Patients.
12. 1. Diagnosis and management erro
The correct application of the safety check steps in our routine theatre operations and procedures will greatly reduce surgically related mortality and morbidity.
The document outlines a surgical safety checklist that is intended to be completed at various stages of a surgical procedure. It includes verifying the patient's identity and consent for the procedure, checking for allergies or other risks, confirming equipment is functioning properly, reviewing key details of the procedure with the surgical team, and having team members introduce themselves.
Improving Surgical Safety and Patient OutcomesC Daniel Smith
Keynote talk delivered at New Jersey Hospital Association Seminary on Improving Surgical Safety & Patient Outcomes held on September 25, 2013 at their Conference Center in Princeton New Jersey. Over physicians, administrators, nurses and perioperative services providers in attendance.
The document discusses the surgical safety checklist recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). It was created to improve communication among surgical teams and reduce avoidable complications and deaths associated with surgery. The checklist is intended to be used at three critical times: before anesthesia, before incision, and before the patient leaves the operating room. It contains steps to confirm the correct patient, prevent errors, and ensure key safety practices are followed. Studies have found the checklist significantly improves surgical outcomes when properly implemented.
Surgical safety checklist issued by whoVin Williams
QPG learning sharing one of the checklist issued by WHO to be followed by surgeons , nurses and anesthetists during whole #surgery to maintain quality in surgical process
The document outlines the International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) which are aimed at reducing common causes of medical errors and improving patient safety. It discusses the goals of correctly identifying patients, improving communication effectiveness, improving safety of high-alert medications, ensuring correct surgery procedures, reducing healthcare-associated infections, and reducing risks of patient harm from falls. For each goal, it provides more details on the specific processes and standards involved in achieving that goal.
This presentation was done by RUTAYISIRE François Xavier and ISHIMWE Diane, medical students at University of RWANDA School of Medicine and pharmacy, department of medicine and surgery. They did it while they were in Year 4 (Doctorate2), under supervision of Dr Ntakiyiruta Georges,Mmed,FCSECSA. It tell us about what a surgical safety checklist is, and why is it important in surgical field.
Learn about the principles behind the surgical checklist and the evidence for adopting the checklist and how one NHS Board has applied the checklist to their surgical theatres and how another has expanded the checklist principle to other areas.
International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in some of the most problematic areas of patient safety.
International-Patient-Safety-GoalsGoal 1: Identify patients correctly
Goal 2: Improve effective communication
Goal 3: Improve the safety of high-alert medications
Goal 4: Ensure safe surgery
Goal 5: Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections
Goal 6: Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
The Universal Protocol is a set of procedures implemented in 2004 to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgery. It includes three key elements: pre-procedure verification, marking the intended site, and conducting a time-out immediately before starting the procedure. The goal is to use data on adverse events collected by JCI to prevent similar errors in other healthcare organizations.
The document discusses enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs. It describes how ERAS utilizes a multimodal approach involving surgeons, nurses, dietitians and others to optimize patient care and recovery through measures like preoperative counseling and nutrition, minimal invasive surgery when possible, reduced use of tubes/drains, early mobilization and feeding, and well-managed postoperative pain control. The goal is to reduce length of stay without increasing complications through evidence-based practices compared to traditional postoperative care methods. Studies show ERAS programs can achieve these outcomes safely and cost-effectively across several surgery types.
There are four zones in an operating theater: the outer zone outside the theater complex, the clean zone within the complex but outside operating areas, the sterile zone within operating areas, and the disposal zone for contaminated items. Within the sterile zone are the operating suite, preparation areas, and stations for scrubbing, gowning, and gloving. Operating rooms must maintain sterile conditions and precise temperatures and humidity. Proper equipment, furniture, lighting, and monitoring allow surgeons to perform operations safely and effectively. Strict protocols are followed for attire, scrubbing, gowning, and gloving to prevent infections.
This 3 sentence summary provides the key details from the medication audit document:
The document outlines a medication audit checklist to evaluate medication storage and handling practices at a hospital department, with 15 questions addressing issues like availability of medications, storage conditions, inventory processes, high risk medications, medication errors, and corrective/preventive actions. Staff knowledge of policies is also assessed on topics such as verbal orders, patient self administration, medication recalls, and error reporting.
The document discusses the management and design considerations for an operation theatre (OT) suite in a hospital. It covers key aspects like location, number of operating rooms, zoning, equipment, lighting, ventilation, safety hazards, emergency equipment and patient protection protocols. The OT suite needs to be carefully planned and designed to minimize infection risks through segregated traffic flow and maintaining different cleanliness zones, from protective to sterile areas.
This document is a checklist used to assess standards and measurable elements for inpatient care at a healthcare facility. It covers areas like scope of service, patient safety goals, assessment of patients, patient and family education, and patient and family rights. For each standard, staff are asked questions to determine if the element is met, not met, not applicable, or not tested. Remarks can also be included. The goal is to evaluate areas like patient identification, communication, safety of medications, infection control, fall risk reduction, documentation, consent processes, privacy and more.
Patient safety- To err is human, building safer health system -IPSGLallu Joseph
The document discusses patient safety in hospitals. It notes that hospitals are complex organizations to manage and medical errors cannot happen. It discusses the importance of teamwork in hospitals and how quality management and accreditation can enhance teamwork. Several international patient safety goals are described, including properly identifying patients, improving communication, safely handling high-alert medications, ensuring safe surgery, reducing healthcare-associated infections, and reducing the risk of patient falls. Building a culture of safety is also emphasized through leadership commitment, encouraging reporting, training, and prioritizing safety issues. The document concludes by reminding readers to treat all patients like family.
This document discusses needlestick injuries among healthcare workers and post-exposure prophylaxis. It provides information on the risks of transmitting various bloodborne pathogens like HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C via needlestick injuries. It also outlines the determinants of transmission risk and classifications of exposure incidents and infected sources. The document recommends immediate management of exposures, which includes wound cleansing. It provides treatment regimens for post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. It stresses the importance of vaccination against Hepatitis B for healthcare workers and safe injection practices to prevent needlestick injuries.
The document outlines 6 international patient safety goals related to improving safety in healthcare facilities. The goals are to: 1) correctly identify patients to prevent wrong-patient errors, 2) improve communication among staff to minimize errors, 3) safely manage high-risk medications like concentrated electrolytes, 4) ensure correct surgical procedures and sites to prevent wrong-site surgeries, 5) reduce healthcare-associated infections through proper hand hygiene, and 6) assess and mitigate patient fall risks. The document provides details on requirements for each goal around developing policies and checklists.
The document outlines the policies and procedures of a hospital's patient safety plan. It establishes a patient safety committee to identify risks, prevent medical errors, and improve safety. It defines key terms like adverse events, near misses, and medication errors. It also lists the standard safety policies the hospital has implemented covering areas like clinical care, medication management, infection control, and facility maintenance. The goal is to institutionalize patient safety as a fundamental part of healthcare delivery.
The document discusses evidence for and against the use of care bundles to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs). Several studies found that implementing bundles focusing on best practices like proper antibiotic use and maintaining normothermia reduced SSIs in colorectal surgeries by 30-60%. However, other evidence showed that while individual practices reduced SSIs, compliance with bundles alone did not consistently decrease rates. Overall, the evidence suggests bundles can reduce SSIs when components address established risk factors, but variation between hospitals still impacts outcomes.
My slides for a presentation to some surgeons in Scotland on the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, built with Lego. Based on Atul Gawande's book/research.
Implementation manual who surgical safety checklist 2009Paul Mark Pilar
The document is an implementation manual for the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist from 2009. It provides guidance on how to use the checklist to improve safety in the operating room. The checklist divides surgery into three phases - before induction of anesthesia, before skin incision, and before the patient leaves the operating room. It describes the safety steps to be completed in each phase, including confirming the patient's identity and consent, checking for allergies, and making sure counts are correct before the patient leaves the OR. The goal is for teams to consistently follow critical safety steps to minimize risks for surgical patients.
The document outlines a surgical safety checklist that is intended to be completed at various stages of a surgical procedure. It includes verifying the patient's identity and consent for the procedure, checking for allergies or other risks, confirming equipment is functioning properly, reviewing key details of the procedure with the surgical team, and having team members introduce themselves.
Improving Surgical Safety and Patient OutcomesC Daniel Smith
Keynote talk delivered at New Jersey Hospital Association Seminary on Improving Surgical Safety & Patient Outcomes held on September 25, 2013 at their Conference Center in Princeton New Jersey. Over physicians, administrators, nurses and perioperative services providers in attendance.
The document discusses the surgical safety checklist recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). It was created to improve communication among surgical teams and reduce avoidable complications and deaths associated with surgery. The checklist is intended to be used at three critical times: before anesthesia, before incision, and before the patient leaves the operating room. It contains steps to confirm the correct patient, prevent errors, and ensure key safety practices are followed. Studies have found the checklist significantly improves surgical outcomes when properly implemented.
Surgical safety checklist issued by whoVin Williams
QPG learning sharing one of the checklist issued by WHO to be followed by surgeons , nurses and anesthetists during whole #surgery to maintain quality in surgical process
The document outlines the International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) which are aimed at reducing common causes of medical errors and improving patient safety. It discusses the goals of correctly identifying patients, improving communication effectiveness, improving safety of high-alert medications, ensuring correct surgery procedures, reducing healthcare-associated infections, and reducing risks of patient harm from falls. For each goal, it provides more details on the specific processes and standards involved in achieving that goal.
This presentation was done by RUTAYISIRE François Xavier and ISHIMWE Diane, medical students at University of RWANDA School of Medicine and pharmacy, department of medicine and surgery. They did it while they were in Year 4 (Doctorate2), under supervision of Dr Ntakiyiruta Georges,Mmed,FCSECSA. It tell us about what a surgical safety checklist is, and why is it important in surgical field.
Learn about the principles behind the surgical checklist and the evidence for adopting the checklist and how one NHS Board has applied the checklist to their surgical theatres and how another has expanded the checklist principle to other areas.
International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in some of the most problematic areas of patient safety.
International-Patient-Safety-GoalsGoal 1: Identify patients correctly
Goal 2: Improve effective communication
Goal 3: Improve the safety of high-alert medications
Goal 4: Ensure safe surgery
Goal 5: Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections
Goal 6: Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls
The Universal Protocol is a set of procedures implemented in 2004 to prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient surgery. It includes three key elements: pre-procedure verification, marking the intended site, and conducting a time-out immediately before starting the procedure. The goal is to use data on adverse events collected by JCI to prevent similar errors in other healthcare organizations.
The document discusses enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs. It describes how ERAS utilizes a multimodal approach involving surgeons, nurses, dietitians and others to optimize patient care and recovery through measures like preoperative counseling and nutrition, minimal invasive surgery when possible, reduced use of tubes/drains, early mobilization and feeding, and well-managed postoperative pain control. The goal is to reduce length of stay without increasing complications through evidence-based practices compared to traditional postoperative care methods. Studies show ERAS programs can achieve these outcomes safely and cost-effectively across several surgery types.
There are four zones in an operating theater: the outer zone outside the theater complex, the clean zone within the complex but outside operating areas, the sterile zone within operating areas, and the disposal zone for contaminated items. Within the sterile zone are the operating suite, preparation areas, and stations for scrubbing, gowning, and gloving. Operating rooms must maintain sterile conditions and precise temperatures and humidity. Proper equipment, furniture, lighting, and monitoring allow surgeons to perform operations safely and effectively. Strict protocols are followed for attire, scrubbing, gowning, and gloving to prevent infections.
This 3 sentence summary provides the key details from the medication audit document:
The document outlines a medication audit checklist to evaluate medication storage and handling practices at a hospital department, with 15 questions addressing issues like availability of medications, storage conditions, inventory processes, high risk medications, medication errors, and corrective/preventive actions. Staff knowledge of policies is also assessed on topics such as verbal orders, patient self administration, medication recalls, and error reporting.
The document discusses the management and design considerations for an operation theatre (OT) suite in a hospital. It covers key aspects like location, number of operating rooms, zoning, equipment, lighting, ventilation, safety hazards, emergency equipment and patient protection protocols. The OT suite needs to be carefully planned and designed to minimize infection risks through segregated traffic flow and maintaining different cleanliness zones, from protective to sterile areas.
This document is a checklist used to assess standards and measurable elements for inpatient care at a healthcare facility. It covers areas like scope of service, patient safety goals, assessment of patients, patient and family education, and patient and family rights. For each standard, staff are asked questions to determine if the element is met, not met, not applicable, or not tested. Remarks can also be included. The goal is to evaluate areas like patient identification, communication, safety of medications, infection control, fall risk reduction, documentation, consent processes, privacy and more.
Patient safety- To err is human, building safer health system -IPSGLallu Joseph
The document discusses patient safety in hospitals. It notes that hospitals are complex organizations to manage and medical errors cannot happen. It discusses the importance of teamwork in hospitals and how quality management and accreditation can enhance teamwork. Several international patient safety goals are described, including properly identifying patients, improving communication, safely handling high-alert medications, ensuring safe surgery, reducing healthcare-associated infections, and reducing the risk of patient falls. Building a culture of safety is also emphasized through leadership commitment, encouraging reporting, training, and prioritizing safety issues. The document concludes by reminding readers to treat all patients like family.
This document discusses needlestick injuries among healthcare workers and post-exposure prophylaxis. It provides information on the risks of transmitting various bloodborne pathogens like HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C via needlestick injuries. It also outlines the determinants of transmission risk and classifications of exposure incidents and infected sources. The document recommends immediate management of exposures, which includes wound cleansing. It provides treatment regimens for post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. It stresses the importance of vaccination against Hepatitis B for healthcare workers and safe injection practices to prevent needlestick injuries.
The document outlines 6 international patient safety goals related to improving safety in healthcare facilities. The goals are to: 1) correctly identify patients to prevent wrong-patient errors, 2) improve communication among staff to minimize errors, 3) safely manage high-risk medications like concentrated electrolytes, 4) ensure correct surgical procedures and sites to prevent wrong-site surgeries, 5) reduce healthcare-associated infections through proper hand hygiene, and 6) assess and mitigate patient fall risks. The document provides details on requirements for each goal around developing policies and checklists.
The document outlines the policies and procedures of a hospital's patient safety plan. It establishes a patient safety committee to identify risks, prevent medical errors, and improve safety. It defines key terms like adverse events, near misses, and medication errors. It also lists the standard safety policies the hospital has implemented covering areas like clinical care, medication management, infection control, and facility maintenance. The goal is to institutionalize patient safety as a fundamental part of healthcare delivery.
The document discusses evidence for and against the use of care bundles to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs). Several studies found that implementing bundles focusing on best practices like proper antibiotic use and maintaining normothermia reduced SSIs in colorectal surgeries by 30-60%. However, other evidence showed that while individual practices reduced SSIs, compliance with bundles alone did not consistently decrease rates. Overall, the evidence suggests bundles can reduce SSIs when components address established risk factors, but variation between hospitals still impacts outcomes.
My slides for a presentation to some surgeons in Scotland on the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist, built with Lego. Based on Atul Gawande's book/research.
Implementation manual who surgical safety checklist 2009Paul Mark Pilar
The document is an implementation manual for the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist from 2009. It provides guidance on how to use the checklist to improve safety in the operating room. The checklist divides surgery into three phases - before induction of anesthesia, before skin incision, and before the patient leaves the operating room. It describes the safety steps to be completed in each phase, including confirming the patient's identity and consent, checking for allergies, and making sure counts are correct before the patient leaves the OR. The goal is for teams to consistently follow critical safety steps to minimize risks for surgical patients.
This document contains multiple choice questions about blood transfusion reactions, diagnostic tests for syphilis, and a case of a 30-year-old female with bronchiectasis. Regarding blood transfusions, choices include that ABO incompatibility causes severe haemolysis, FNHTR is due to recipient antibodies to donor leukocytes, and TRALI is caused by donor plasma antibodies to leukocytes. Tests to confirm syphilis include the TPPA antibody test. The best diagnosis for the 30-year-old female with bronchiectasis and infections is a neutrophil defect.
This document discusses the importance of infection control and hygiene in operating theatres. It notes that surgical site infections are a major concern that increase morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. The WHO Safe Surgery Checklist is highlighted as an important tool to reduce infections. Regular microbiological surveillance of operating theatre air is recommended to monitor bacterial counts and identify potential issues. Proper hand hygiene, environmental cleaning and maintaining appropriate air quality are essential practices to reduce infections arising from the operating theatre. Implementing checklists and collecting data on infections pre- and post-intervention can help assess effectiveness of patient safety measures in individual facilities.
Surgical Education Research: Tips, Skills and Opportunities r_ajjawi
In this interactive workshop we aim to familiarise participants with ways in which surgical educational research is carried out, especially highlighting how it differs from more familiar biomedical approaches. In doing so we will:
- Provide exemplars of educational research carried out by surgeon educators
- Discuss challenges and identify opportunities for developing oneself as a researcher in surgical education.
This document discusses the need for standardized operation theater protocols and practices in India to improve safety and reduce infections. It provides an overview of key factors that influence surgical site infections and international standards for operation theater design including air filtration levels, air changes per hour, temperature, humidity and positive pressurization. The document emphasizes establishing standards for documentation, recording surgical procedures, and microbiological surveillance of operation theaters to enhance patient safety.
The document discusses the field of immunohematology, which involves the study of antigen-antibody reactions related to blood components. It covers topics like blood group systems, common tests used in immunohematology like blood typing and crossmatching, hemolytic disease of the newborn, and complications of blood transfusion.
OPERATION THEATURE MANAGEMENT FOR NURSESshanza aurooj
This document provides an overview of the role and responsibilities of a scrub nurse in the operating room. It discusses welcoming patients, preoperative assessments, scrubbing in using sterile technique, assisting the surgeon by passing instruments and supplies, maintaining sterile fields and patient safety, and concluding procedures. It also provides orientations on common surgical needles, sutures, and instruments that scrub nurses must be familiar with to properly support surgeons during operations.
1. Blood transfusion has evolved significantly since the first successful human transfusion in the early 1600s with discoveries like ABO blood grouping and advances in storage techniques.
2. Successful blood transfusion requires crossmatching between donor and recipient blood to minimize transfusion reactions as well as use of anticoagulants and plastic storage containers.
3. While blood transfusion can be life-saving, it also carries risks like acute transfusion reactions, chronic transfusion complications, and potential transmission of infections. Careful donor screening and testing helps reduce these risks.
This document discusses blood transfusion, including definitions, types of transfusions, blood products, indications for transfusion, risks, and guidelines. It covers topics like whole blood, packed red blood cells, platelets, plasma, and cryoprecipitate. Key points include that transfusion involves receiving blood products intravenously to replace lost blood, it can use one's own blood or from a donor, and decisions should be based on careful assessment of clinical and lab indications to save life or prevent morbidity.
In the presentation, a summary of initiatives to be taken by hospitals in different areas for patient safety have been described for the knowledge, practices and implementation of patient safety initiative by hospital managers/Administrators.
MONITORING THE PT DURING SURGICAL PROCEDURE AND LEGAL ASPECTS OF OTSUMIT kr PANDEY
This document discusses monitoring patients during surgical procedures and the legal aspects involved. It begins by defining patient monitoring as a technique used during surgery to monitor the patient's nervous system and vital signs to prevent damage. It then lists the most commonly monitored values such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature. The document outlines the perioperative phases and responsibilities of nurses. These include assessing the patient's status, obtaining consent, and transferring the patient to and from the operating room. It concludes by discussing various legal considerations in the operating room like informed consent, documentation, privacy, and compliance with infection control and waste disposal procedures.
The WHO Safe Surgery Checklist is designed to improve safety and reduce avoidable complications and deaths during surgical procedures. It divides surgeries into three phases - Sign In (before anaesthesia), Time Out (before incision), and Sign Out (before patient leaves operating room) - and provides critical safety steps to be checked verbally by a designated coordinator in each phase. The goal is for operating teams to consistently follow these steps to minimize common risks for patients. Successful implementation requires commitment from hospital leaders and practice for teams to integrate the Checklist into their workflows and culture of communication.
The document discusses recent advances in safer surgery. It defines safer surgery as reducing avoidable harm to surgical patients. Common causes of patient harm include errors by healthcare professionals, a complex healthcare system, and barriers during care. Standards, communication, and learning from incidents can help achieve safer surgery goals. The WHO surgical safety checklist provides a standardized 5-step process of briefing, sign in, time out, sign out, and debriefing to reduce errors and improve outcomes. Implementing changes gradually through repeated testing and feedback cycles allows for safer surgery initiatives to be successfully adopted.
1. Safety is a priority in surgery and harm can occur at different stages from pre-operation to post-operation. Common errors include wrong site surgery, retained instruments, and failure to communicate changes in a patient's condition.
2. Risks in surgery can come from patients themselves, healthcare professionals, system failures, and medical complexity. Healthcare professionals must properly assess and monitor patients, use checklists, and learn from reported incidents to improve safety.
3. Surgical assistants have an important role in preparing for operations, learning key steps, providing assistance during surgery, and documenting what they learn to improve their skills over time under supervision of senior surgeons. Standard
Article from the british medical journal summary of nice ssi guidelinesArman Malekan Dr.
This document summarizes guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for preventing and treating surgical site infections. Some key recommendations include:
1) Providing patients information on risks, prevention, and signs of infection as well as proper wound care.
2) Having patients shower or bathe before surgery and use electric clippers rather than razors for hair removal when necessary.
3) Giving antibiotic prophylaxis for certain surgery types but not for clean, non-prosthetic surgery.
4) Maintaining sterility in the operating room including wearing sterile gowns and preparing the skin with antiseptics.
5) Advising patients it is safe to shower 48 hours
Preoperative Evaluation and Investigations for Maxillofacial Surgery 1.pdfIslam Kassem
The document provides guidelines for preoperative evaluation, admission notes, operative notes, and postoperative care of patients undergoing maxillofacial surgery. It discusses the purpose and key contents of admission notes, preoperative notes, informed consent processes, surgical site marking, brief operative notes, full operative reports, immediate postoperative notes, progress notes, postoperative orders, and discharge summaries. The guidelines aim to ensure thorough documentation and communication between healthcare providers regarding patient care.
What must i consider to safely anesthetize someoneanvardr
The document discusses considerations for safely anesthetizing patients in an office setting. It covers physical office requirements like adequate space and equipment. It also discusses physician qualifications and certifications. For patient selection, it recommends low-risk ASA 1-2 patients and excluding those with significant comorbidities. Evidence shows office anesthesia can be low-risk when standards are followed. Guidelines published by professional societies provide recommendations.
This document provides guidelines for various quality and safety practices at a hospital. It discusses proper patient identification procedures, guidelines for verbal and telephone orders, procedures for high alert medications, surgical checklists including site marking and time outs, hand hygiene practices, fall risk assessment and prevention measures, occurrence variance reporting for documenting incidents, and the focus-PDCA methodology for quality improvement. Key areas of focus include correctly identifying patients, improving communication, ensuring surgery and medication safety, reducing healthcare associated infections and patient harm from falls.
This document discusses developing patient safety practices in surgery. It notes that 234 million operations are performed globally each year, but surgical complications occur in 3-16% of cases, resulting in up to 1 million deaths annually. Checklists have been shown to reduce mortality, complications, surgical site infections, and reoperations. Proper site marking and a surgical timeout are emphasized to perform the right procedure on the correct patient. Non-technical skills like communication, leadership, and situation awareness are also important for safety. The document calls for recognizing surgery as a public health issue, increased outcome surveillance, and applying existing safety knowledge to improve practices.
OPERATIVE NURSING CARE by Ms. DEEPA BIJU, Sister In-Cahrge, Operation Theater...NursingOfficers1
This PPT explains about Preoperative and intra-operative Nursing care. It explains about Hospital routine and Role of Nurse in pre-opertive and intra-operative period
Prevention of Surgical Site Infection- SSI [compatibility mode]drnahla
Infection Control Guidelines for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection- SSI
Dr. NAHLA ABDEL KADERوMD, PhD.
INFECTION CONTROL CONSULTANT, MOH
INFECTION CONTROL CBAHI SURVEYOR
Infection Control Director, KKH.
International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG) help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern in some of the most problematic areas of patient safety.
The document discusses surgical safety and outlines 3 central problems: it is not recognized as a public health issue, there is a lack of data on surgery and outcomes, and existing safety knowledge is not consistently applied. It notes that over 234 million operations are performed globally each year, with known complication rates of 3-16% and death rates of 0.4-0.8%. The WHO developed a surgical safety checklist to address its 10 objectives for safe surgery, which was piloted in 8 cities and found to reduce postoperative complications and death by over one-third. The checklist provides a simple and effective way to ensure best practices are followed for every patient.
Patient safety is a fundamental principle of healthcare. Adverse events can result from problems in various areas of care and improving safety requires a complex, system-wide effort. Ensuring safety involves assessing risks, preventing harm, reporting and analyzing incidents, learning from mistakes, and implementing solutions. Guidelines include proper identification of patients, hand hygiene, medication reconciliation, and fall prevention.
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The document discusses guidelines for proper patient identification and verification of surgical procedures. It recommends that patients undergoing surgery should have at least two identifiers, wear an identifying marker, and be properly identified by the surgical team before transport to the operating room. It also stresses the importance of verifying the correct surgical procedure and site, and conducting a "time out" before any procedure to confirm patient, procedure, and site details. Potential barriers to proper identification like staffing issues, multiple procedures or surgeons are also outlined.
Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care and reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health.
The document discusses preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative nursing care. It outlines the three phases of operative nursing care which include preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases. In the preoperative phase, nurses provide education to patients, assess patients' knowledge, and prepare patients physically and psychologically for surgery. Key aspects of preoperative nursing care are also discussed such as preoperative assessment, tests, and medications. The roles and responsibilities of nurses in the intraoperative phase are summarized as monitoring patients, ensuring sterility, documenting care, and safely positioning patients for surgery.
Anesthesiologists must ensure patient safety during operations as anesthesia carries risks. Factors threatening safety include equipment issues, patient health conditions, and human factors like fatigue. Strategies to improve safety include thorough preoperative evaluations and planning, situational awareness during procedures, cross-checking observations, preparing for emergencies, enhancing teamwork, and learning from adverse events. Common errors involve airway issues, medication errors, and procedure mistakes, which can be avoided through vigilance, training, and following standards and guidelines. Quality assurance aims to improve care and minimize risks through documentation, safety training, and protocols for monitoring, handoffs, and responding to adverse events.
The document discusses preoperative and postoperative nursing care for surgical patients. It covers assessing patients preoperatively, preparing them for surgery through education and physical preparation, monitoring them intraoperatively, and caring for them postoperatively by assessing vital signs, dressings, pain, and other factors. The types and purposes of different surgeries are also classified. The nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation is applied throughout the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phases of surgical care.
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مضاعفات العمليات الجراحية
POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
عملية استئصال المرارة بجراحة المناظير
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
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رئيس قسم الجراحة
مسؤول التعليم والتدريب الطبي
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الرياض، المملكة العربية السعودية
Dr. Mohamad Al-Gailani FRCS
Consultant Breast and General Surgeon
Chief of Surgery
In Charge Medical Education and Training
Al Hammadi Hospital
Nuzha
Riyadh, KSA
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رئيس قسم الجراحة
مسؤول التعليم و التدريب الطبي
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الدكتور محمد الكيلاني
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Clinical scenarios with radiology images and comments.
Indications for laparoscopy/laparotomy
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Chief of Surgery
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In-Charge Medical Education & Training
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Riyadh, KSA
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2. Introduction
Checklists have been used in aviation to standardize and increase the reliability of
systems.”
Dramatically reduced aviation accidents and near misses.
WHO adopted same principles to surgery.
Established world wide
Essential tool to minimise occurrence of wrong patient, wrong operation or wrong
side!
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3. Surgical risk, the scale
The reported crude mortality rate after major surgery is 0.5-5%;
Complications after inpatient operations occur in up to 25% of patients;
In industrialized countries, nearly half of all adverse events in hospitalized patients
are related to surgical care;
At least half of the cases in which surgery led to harm are considered preventable;
Mortality from general anaesthesia alone is reported to be as high as one in 150 in
some parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
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4. Objectives
All important safety elements are reviewed by ALL OR
teams, for ALL patients, at ALL times
Promote teamwork and communication
Preparedness for the unexpected
Promotes an environment that allows anyone on the
team to speak up if patient safety is at risk.
Correct patient, operation and operative site
Safe Anesthesia and Resuscitation
Minimize the risk of infection
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6. Principles
Deployable in an incremental fashion
Supported by scientific evidence and expert
consensus
Evaluated in diverse settings around the world
Ensures adherence to established safety practices
Minimal resources required to implement a far-
reaching safety intervention
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7. The 10 Principles
1. Operate on the correct patient at the correct site.
2. Use methods known to avoid harm from the administration of anesthesia, while
protecting the patient from pain.
3. Recognize and effectively prepare for life threatening loss of the patient’s airway
or respiratory function.
4. Recognize and effectively prepare for the possibility of high blood loss
5. Avoid inducing any allergic or adverse drug reaction known to be a significant
risk for the patient.
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8. 6. Consistently use methods known to minimize the possibility of surgical site
infection.
7. Work to avoid the inadvertent retention of instruments or sponges in surgical
wounds.
8. Secure and accurately identify all surgical specimens.
9. Effectively communicate and exchange critical patient information for the safe
conduct of the operation.
10. Hospitals and public health systems will establish routine surveillance of surgical
capacity, volume, and results.
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10. 1. Briefing
(before anaesthetic induction)
Verbal confirmation with the patient:
Identity using two patient identifiers;
Consent for surgery;
Type of procedure planned; and;
Site (side and/or level of surgery).
Site marked/not applicable
Confirm surgeon performing the surgery has marked the surgical site according to Policy
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11. Briefing
Allergies/Precautions
Does the patient have any known allergies? If so what are they?
Latex allergy precautions required.
Is the patient on any specific infection control precautions? If so
what? MRSA?
VTE prophylaxis
Is the patient receiving/to receive chemical VTE prophylaxis?
Is the patient receiving/to receive mechanical VTE prophylaxis?
Confirm TEDs/LMWH have or will be applied as per surgeon
request &/or hospital policy.
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13. 2. Time Out
(before knife to skin)
Performed after induction, prepping/draping immediately prior to surgical
incision.
Team members are identified
Team members are identified by name and role.
Team verbally confirms:
Correct Patient;
Correct Procedure; and
Correct Site.
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14. Time Out
Antibiotic prophylaxis given within the appropriate time frame.
Confirm antibiotic prophylaxis has been given within 60minutes If not
given, give before incision;
If administered, when is next dose due if any?
Essential imaging displayed?
Confirm essential imaging has been displayed and is displayed
correctly.
Team communicates anticipated complications.
Anticipated blood loss?
Any unusual steps?
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15. 3. Debriefing
(before patient leaves theatre)
Performed during or immediately after wound closure before the patient is transferred
from the operating room.
Should be initiated when informing the surgeon that “Count is Correct”
Nurse verbally confirms with the entire team
Confirmation of procedure performed as stated by surgeon;
Verbal confirmation of specimen details;
Verbal confirmation of surgical count; and
Identification of equipment problems.
Procedure documented
Surgeon reviews with the entire team
Any concerns for recovery?
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16. Debriefing
Anesthesiologist review with the entire team
Recovery plans including concerns/issues related to postoperative care
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17. Success in Implementation
Ongoing vigilance
A champion (or better, champions) at all levels!
Commitment from senior management and the
board
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