Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Patients benefit from new hospital training programme

Patients at Royal Hampshire County Hospital are now less likely to suffer from serious cases of sepsis. Sepsis is described as a powerful infection that happens in the blood and causes organs like the heart and lungs to stop working, eventually killing the patient.

Doctors and nurses at the hospital in Winchester now use a training programme that teaches them how to spot sepsis before it can seriously harm a patient. The training programme began in April last year and has cut patient deaths from sepsis from 26% to 16%.

Lisa Morgan, who helps with the training, explained why it was introduced and how it works:

[audio clip input: "the programme was put into place because of a clinical audit that was done in the medical department measuring mortality and recognition of severe sepsis, and we wanted to reduce that figure of mortality...
when each intake of doctors comes in this training programme gets repeated for their induction...
everybody's given a lecture of what sepsis is, what the science and symptoms are. Everybody's split into smaller work groups and they rotate through different work stations, so one work station is where they will have a simulated patient" - clip length: 30secs approx]

Audio available here: http://www.edublogs.tv/uploads/audio/2syLrN1WLzuGQhNnNHA4.mp3

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