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Do you include antibiotic administration as part of your Timeout procedure?
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| No, probably never will |
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| No, sounds like a good idea |
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Topic: Antibiotic administration included as part of surgical timeout (Read 2406 times)
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drsleep4
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Posted from experience and discussion at the AACD workshop
There are a number of the members that stated that they have added the antibiotic administration into their time out procedure. This has resulted in excellent increases in the success rates of administering antibiotics in a timely fashion.
Are there any members that would care to provide any data from their institution?
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jschwartzmd
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We added the antibiotic to our timeout about 1.5years ago. I'm not sure of its contribution to timeliness;however, we are currently at 99% compliance with CMS related patients. Our bugaboo has been the Trauma patient requiring ex lap. Antibiotics are supposed to be given as the patient leaves the ED, but occasionally the patient diverts to Xray prior to OR and by the time of incision, one hour has elapsed. In the setting of general pandemonium surrounding the acute unstable trauma patient, we miss the redosing.
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barnetre
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We have added ABX administration to the time-out process and our compliance has improved (into the 90+ percentile). In addition to the time-out question regarding ABX administration we have also added a query regarding DVT prophylaxis.
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