Improving Patient Outcomes through Quality Improvement

Day: Thursday | Time: 08:45 - 10:15 | Room: Queens Suite 1

Session Coordinators:
Megan Rowley

Presentations:

Realistic Medicine and Realistic Transfusion
Danny McGee, SNBTS

Preoperative Anaemia Management in Scotland
Dr Sonya McKinlay, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Oral Presentations

Every minute counts: poor management of major haemorrhages put patients at increased risk – 5 years of data from SHOT
Simon Carter-Graham

Results of the national comparative audit of blood transfusion management of major haemorrhage in the United Kingdom
Laura Green

Intended Audience
Transfusion Practitioners, Doctors, Biomedical Scientists

Learning Objectives
Successful implementation of patient blood management initiatives, use of audit and feedback to improve transfusion practice, learning from errors and incidents to improve transfusion practice

Brief Description
This session will cover a number of different approaches to quality improvement in clinical transfusion practice including the use of error and incident reporting and audit and feedback. It will cover the approach Scotland has taken to align patient blood management to a national healthcare initiative - Realistic Medicine.

Session Tags
Improving Patient Outcomes