CONTENTS
VOLUME 11 ISSUE 10
5 Comment 6 Cover Story: Patient warming made easier 9 News
FEATURES 17 Quality assurance: the way forward
When failures in standards occur, do we have the correct systems in place to meet the expectations of the public and to learn ‘how to do better next time’?
46 Ketone testing past and present 22 Ensuring technology meets future needs
Clinical Insight – a network of NHS stakeholders – has been established to help shape the future of medical technology.
CRAIG FOREBACK and GARY DOWTHWAITE review alternative ways to diagnose and monitor ketoacidosis using assays for the major ketone body, 3-ß-Hydroxybutyrate, which have been available on automated analysers since 1987.
50 Driving improvement in difficult times
The NHS faces major changes and unprecedented challenges ahead, but there are also opportunities to deliver improvement. At AfPP 2012, the Chief Nursing Officer forWales discussed the implications for perioperative practice.
55 Patient warming: improving outcomes 25 SSI: using root cause analysis
MELISSA ROCHON examines areas covered in root cause analysis of surgical site infection (SSI), and promotes the use of a multidisciplinary group to review elevated rates and themes arising from such analysis.
30 Calls to eliminate avoidable malnutrition
BAPEN is calling for a national nutritional strategy, following a screening survey which found that malnutrition continues to affect one-in-four adults on admission to hospital.
34 International focus on medical innovation
Attracting over 134,000 international visitors, MEDICA provides a showcase for healthcare innovation. CSJ provides an insight into the event’s key attractions and this year’s hot topics.
NOVEMBER 2012 63 Decontamination issues examined
Leading experts in the field of decontamination sciences will be discussing key issues facing SSDs at the IDSc annual conference. CSJ provides an insight into this year’s key conference themes, along with an overview of some of the innovations and solutions being highlighted at the event.
THE CLINICAL SERVICES JOURNAL 3
Research shows that addressing the issue of inadvertent hypothermia can have a significant impact – reducing mortality and morbidity in patients with trauma, as well as those undergoing surgery.
39 Infection prevention: key issues raised
The need to improve surgical site infection surveillance, as well as understand the impact on patients’ lives, were among the key issues raised at the Infection Prevention Society’s annual conference.
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