“Right Patient, Right Operation, Right Place, Right Time”
Welcome to the Perioperative Medicine (PoM) SIG Quarterly Newsletter. Our aim is to deliver up-to-date developments and resources for continuing PoM education.
Perioperative Medicine and COVID-19
PoM (Perioperative Medicine) is well placed to meet some of the challenges in the patient’s perioperative journey, in the COVID-19 world. There have been many necessary adaptations that have a direct impact on PoM. These include:
- Encouraging telehealth consultations to minimise older, co-morbid patients attending hospital unnecessarily
- Prioritisation of emergency and urgent surgery
- Avoiding low value surgical procedures in the elderly and co-morbid patients
- How powerful social distancing and simple infection control strategies (hand hygiene and the use of droplet precautions) can be to minimize all respiratory viral infections including COVID-19
As we walk through this time, let’s attempt to take what we have learnt and implement it for the sake of our patients and those we work with.
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Other information:
If you wish to find out more information regarding fellowships in perioperative medicine for anaesthesia trainees, please contact Dr Richard Seglenieks.
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Editors
Dr Manson Ku – Specialist Anaesthetist, North Shore Hospital, New Zealand
Dr Jeremy Fernando – PoM SIG executive member, Anaesthetist & Intensivist, St Vincent’s Hospital, Australia
Dr Jill Van Acker – Chair of the PoM SIG, Anaesthetist, Canberra Hospital, Australia
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