Lunch & Learn series autumn 2024
(full program is attached and the sessions will be recorded)
2. What you can do as a surgeon to manage the risk of surgical site infections.
Prevention of surgical site infections is of outmost importance for our patient and for us being a sustainable company. This series of Lunch & Learns will give you an excellent background on why and how to prevent and tackle these infections. Our second session will be about what you as surgeon and part of surgical team can do to minimise risk of surgial site infections. It is Dr Ronan Doyle, European Veterinary Specialist in Small Animal Surgery at Davies Veterinary Specialists (Linnaeus) that will guide us through this topic together and explanting the benefits of using a surgical safety checklist.
Ronan has over 20 years experience of managing advanced surgical patients. A graduate of University College Dublin, Ireland, after a period in general small animal practice, he returned there to undertake surgical residency training and a lectureship in surgery. He became a Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2005 and an RCVS-recognised Specialist in Small Animal Surgery in 2006. He joined Davies Veterinary Specialists, one of the leading multi-disciplinary small animal referral centres in the UK, in 2005, and subsequently led the soft tissue surgery service there for 10 years before becoming the Clinical Director and then hospital Director alongside continued surgical work. He is interested in all aspects of soft tissue surgery, especially the management of obstructive airway disease, wound reconstruction and surgical oncology. He is also particularly interested in CPD provision and has lectured extensively on small animal surgery throughout the UK and Ireland, as well as being an invited speaker at the annual meeting of the ECVS.
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Link to Teams, for the Infection and prevention Lunch&Learn, Oct 15th, 2024
Click this link to join the L&L Oct 15th, 2024
About this Lunch & Learn series:
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the burden of surgery. It causes patient suffering, increased costs, frustration and stress for pet owners and staff with decreased client satisfaction followed by bad reputation and decreased credibility. Also, the treatments that follow an SSI will increase our environmental footprint as we will use more material, more antibiotics and maybe more anaesthesia gases depending on the severity of the infection. Then the owner might need to travel multiple times in a car to resolve the problem. Prevention of SSI is the key forward to make us a more sustainable business.
Recently, AniCura has updated our Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Guidelines. By applying the recommendations in these guidelines, we will reduce the spread of micro-organisms in our clinics and therefore, we will prevent patients from disease like surgical site infections. Compliance to our IPC guidelines will also contribute to a safer work environment to Associates.as the risk of transmission of zoonotic diseases declines.
When SSIs occur, it is essential to reflect why. We know that many SSIs are preventable. Here, we have APSIS to help us, however, active surveillance is the base to combat these infections which will give us a more complete picture. To rely on owners coming back is not a trustworthy way. Sampling for bacteriology and sustainability testing is of outmost importance, because in both human and veterinary healthcare, it is more common that resistant bacteria are the cause of the SSIs.