QIST PREVIEW
Quality Improvement for Surgical Teams
This year, Quality Improvement for Surgical Teams (QIST) will be taking place on Tuesday 18 October and Wednesday 19 October at The Marriott Gosforth Newcastle. Gail Lowdon, clinical surveillance lead, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, provides an insight into what’s on offer at this year’s conference.
The trauma and orthopaedic service at the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is the largest in the North East and carries out over 2,500 hip and knee operations each year and has been one of the first to carry out fast track joint replacement surgery, halving recovery time and reducing complications. The annual conference of Quality Improvement for Surgical Teams (QIST), hosted by Northumbria-Healthcare NHS Trust and led by consultant orthopaedic surgeon, Mike Reed, and clinical surveillance lead, Gail Lowdon, aims to continue to bring together like minded professionals in all healthcare roles to continue in driving the commitment of improving and sharing best practice across the specialties of enhanced recovery in total hip and total knee joint replacement surgery, hip fracture care (HipQip) and in the prevention and reduction of surgical site infection (SSI), overall aiming for positive patient experiences and outcomes. This year, Quality Improvement for
Surgical Teams will be taking place on Tuesday 18 October and Wednesday 19 October at The Marriott Gosforth Newcastle. The conference has been awarded 6 CPD points for each day by the British Orthopaedic Association. The team hopes that the delegates enjoy the broad range of speakers that they have joining them this year, sharing the various studies and practices being undertaken in the speakers’ own areas of expertise.
The audience throughout the conference are given the opportunity to ask questions or challenge the speakers as throughout both days time has been put aside for ‘panel question’ time. Again the event has been well supported by the medical and
pharmaceutical industries and there will be many exhibition stands for the delegates to visit alongside the Northumbrian stands exhibiting the research projects and initiatives that have been implemented or being undertaken.
Tuesday 18 October
Day one of the conference concentrates on the enhanced recovery and the hip fracture care programmes that are being undertaken at Northumbria, across the UK and International hospitals. Speakers include:
l Henrik Husted, who will be delivering the keynote lecture “10 years with Fast- Track in Denmark: Scientific Results”. Henrik has been involved in the development of the fast track model since 2000 and he will also be talking on “outpatient THA and TKA – A bridge too far ?” and “Traditions”.
l Andrew Beswick, research fellow, will be delivering a number of talks over the two days based on his research studies on improving the patient’s experience and outcome of total joint replacement.
l Sudheer Karlakki was a speaker at QIST last year on day two and this year he has been invited back to share the Oswetry experience of fast track.
l Paul Partington, arthroplasty lead at Northumbria and leading on the day case hip and knee joint replacement.
l Allan Marriott, surgical care practitioner and manager of the anaemia screening programme at Northumbria.
l Jonny Kent, specialist registrar, Northumbria will be delivering his talk on the use of compression bandaging following knee replacement.
Joining the SSI and enhanced recovery group over the last two years at QIST, we have introduced the work around care of hip fracture patients (HipQip). The majority of these patients tend to be more frail, elderly and with high risk comorbidities – requiring a standard of care that incorporates both the surgical orthopaedic teams, as well as the specialty of the ortho-geriatrician. Speakers include:
l Dominic Inman, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and HipQip lead at Northumbria,
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who will be sharing the current improvements at Northumbria.
l Jan-Erik Gjertsen, associate professor from Bergen, will be giving an insight into the hip fracture care in Scandinavia and also talking on day two on surgical site infection in hip fracture.
l Robert Wakeman, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and clinical lead for National Hip Fracture Database since 2004 will be presenting on “Quality Improvement in Hip Fracture Care”.
l Mike Reed, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and clinical lead for quality at Northumbria will be delivering a number of talks over the two days. On day one, his focus will be on the use of Tranexamic Acid for patients with a hip fracture and scaling up hip fracture quality improvement. He will also be reviewing the current results of enhanced recovery at Northumbria.
l Antony Johansen, consultant orthogeriatrician NHFD clinical lead from Wales, will be delivering a talk on ‘Fraility’
l Mark Harper, consultant anaesthetist from Brighton & Sussex will be sharing an interesting talk on cold water swimming to improve surgical outcomes on day one and on day two he will be talking about anaesthetic options to reduce surgical site infection.
l Rory Morrison, specialist registrar at Northumbria, will be delivering his talk on the supplementation of Vitamin D to enhance outcomes.
l Imran Khan, clinical fellow, Northumbria, will present the “Evolving Enhanced Recovery Protocol”.
Wednesday 19 October
Day two focuses on the aspects of surgical site infection – looking at the prevention and treatment options and the latest research projects undertaken at Northumbria, across the UK and international hospitals. Speakers include: l Eliot Sykes, consultant anaesthetist, clinical director of surgical business unit
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