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Wassim Abdou
Southport & Ormskirk NHS Trust, UK
ScientificTracks Abstracts: Pulsus J Surg Res
Many UK hospitals struggle with week-end coverage due to shortage in medical staffing. This audit done in three cycles aim at helping junior doctors on-call to avoid less urgent jobs such as writing a drug chart or completely rewriting it, complete VTE prophylaxis, sign a DNAR - also called Do Not Attempt Resuscitation which must be signed by a consultant, but an SHO could sign it and it would be valid for 24-48h. Our audit aims at improving quality and better patient care. This audit first cycle is to apply a questionnaire to the medical team on-call on Saturday and Sunday. The second part of our audit was to present a checklist / pro forma where every Friday, doctors must fill it out and go through the whole checklist. This would ensure patient's safety and doctors to organize their jobs on the weekends. Finally, the third part consists on questioning the junior doctors again to see if our pro forma improved their weekend on-calls. The results were very satisfying since the audit improved quality care and helped junior doctors on weekend on-calls to concentrate on more important jobs such as cardiac arrests.
Wassim Abdou graduated from the Slovak Medical University in July 2020. Currently working in the UK, at Southport & Ormskirk NHS Trust as a Senior House Officer. Rotating in internal medicine departments. Working on improving medical quality and leading to improve care.
