Global trigger tool and patient safety

Title : Global trigger tool and patient safety

Abstract:

Anaesthesia and surgery have now become team events and not an individual pursuit anymore. Working in teams has advantages and disadvantages. The continuity of care is sometimes fragmented. Information gets missed as it gets passed around doctors, nurses and their colleagues working in multiple shifts. This may result in minor or major complications in the perioperative period. Global Trigger tool was designed to capture common complications in perioperative period in a hospital setting. The incidence of these can be monitored and hospital wide harm rates can be calculated. Focused analysis of recurrent errors can reveal a pattern of things going wrong with a member of staff or in a certain ward or operating theatre. These can be rectified and continued to get monitored. Hospital wide harm rates over the years then reflect the patient safety culture within that setting.

Biography:

Dr. Sugam Kale, MD, FRCA was trained in anaesthesia in Mumbai, India. Later, he obtained higher specialist training in England, in Cambridge and London deaneries. He worked as a senior consultant in anaesthesia in Singapore for 23 years. In Singapore, he was also Assistant professor of anaesthesia, examiner at MBBS and post graduate examinations. He is also an external examiner at the University of East Anglia, UK. His special interests include Neuroanaesthesia, Regional anaesthesia, difficult airway, teaching, patient safety.