Infection Control Matters
Infection Control Matters
Brett Mitchell
Implementation of patient warming to prevent SSI - How hard can it be? With Prof. Judith Tanner
32 minutes Posted Apr 5, 2022 at 7:54 pm.
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In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Judith Tanner, Professor of Adult Nursing at the University of Nottingham, UK about a paper in which a mixed methods approach to examining potential and actual barriers to implementation of patient warming were examined. Papers discussed during the session include:

 

  1. Tanner J, et al. Using a comprehensive audit to identify local context prior to care bundle design and implementation for inadvertent perioperative hypothermia in colorectal surgery. BMJ Open Qual. 2021;10(1).   doi:10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001132  https://bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/10/1/e001132
  2. Melling AC, et al. Effects of preoperative warming on the incidence of wound infection after clean surgery: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2001;358(9285):876-880.  doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)06071-8
  3. Tanner J, et al. Effectiveness of a care bundle to reduce surgical site infections in patients having open colorectal surgery. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2016;98(4):270-274.  doi:10.1308/rcsann.2016.0072
  4. Tanner J, et al. Do surgical care bundles reduce the risk of surgical site infections in patients undergoing colorectal surgery? A systematic review and cohort meta-analysis of 8,515 patients. Surgery. 2015;158(1):66-77.  doi:10.1016/j.surg.2015.03.009