NCEPOD - Tracheostomy Care: On the Right Trach? (2014)

Tracheostomy Care: On the Right Trach?

Date of publication: 13th June 2014

This NCEPOD report highlights the process of care for patients who undergo a tracheostomy or a laryngectomy. The report takes a critical look at areas where the care of patients might have been improved. Remediable factors have also been identified in the clinical and the organisational care of these patients.

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Executive Summary

Slides

Self Assessment Checklist

Organisational Data Comparisons

Audit Toolkits (Excel): Please click here to download an Excel version of the TC toolkit Please click here to download an Excel version of the TC toolkit (with charts) We hope you find this useful and if you have any feedback please do contact us at info@ncepod.org.uk. Please can you advise your local audit department if you plan to undertake this audit, it is important that they are made aware of it for the benefit of demonstrating Trust/Board activity and also so that they are in a position to support you and endorse the activity for your benefit.
Slides (8.1Mb) An Adobe Acrobat copy of the presentation slides is available to view/save.
Afternoon speakers at the report launch were: Miss Deborah Dawson, Consultant Nurse Critical Care, St George’s Hospital Mr Paul Pracy, Consultant ENT Surgeon, Queen Elizabeth Hospital & President of BAHNO Professor Tim Cook , Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal United Hospital Bath & DAS Professor of Anaesthesia and Airway Management 2014 Mr Suman Shrestha, Outreach Manager, Frimley Park Hospital & Royal College of Nursing representative Ms Sara Payne, Patient Liaison Group, Royal College of Anaesthetists Dr Bob Winter, National Clinical Director for Emergency Preparedness & Critical Care
Report Launch audio file Morning Session - (NCEPOD present report findings)
Audits of previous NCEPOD reports presented as posters Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust Measuring the Units An audit of alcohol documentation in patients The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Life on the Line An audit of parenteral nutrition following the NCEPOD Report ‘A Mixed Bag’ University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Alcohol related admissions outcome and complications audit Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust An audit of cardiac arrests on a cardio-respiratory unit. Comparing practice to NCEPOD recommendations Epsom and St. Helier NHS Trust Improving the immediate management of suspected neutropenic sepsis (SNS) in the Epsom Hospital Emergency Department (ED): Audit of door to delivery time for antibiotics following the implementation of a SNS immediate management proforma and audit tool North Trent Cancer Network North Trent Cancer Network Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy: 30 Day Mortality Multi-Site Audit Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Assessment and Management of Subarachnoid Haemorrhage at Dorset County Hospital
Report Podcast - audio file Dr Kathy Wilkinson, NCEPOD Clinicial Co-ordinator discussing the findings made in the report.
Study Questionnaires (4 Qs.) Below are a list of questionnaires used in the study available for download. Click each to download as a pdf file. Insertion Clinical Questionnaire Critical Care Discharge Questionnaire Ward Discharge Questionnaire Organisational Questionnaire Assessment Form (Draft only)