A multi‐centre audit of two determinants of the efficacy of emergency plastic surgery patient management: “fasting times” and “injury to theatre time”

Abstract

Two prospective synchronous regional audits involving three tertiary plastic surgery units in mixed service hospitals were carried out to study delays in the management of emergency patients and their possible causes. Each audit was over a one‐month period. These prospective studies investigated “fasting times” (the length of time that an individual patient was fasted prior to definitive management) and “injury to theatre time” (the time span from the time of injury to the time of surgery for patients going to the operating theatre). Results are analysed and discussed and recommendations for improvement are offered.

Citation

Pandya, A., Grant, I., Vaingankar, N., Human, M., Huang, S., Waters, M. and James, N.K. (2003), "A multi‐centre audit of two determinants of the efficacy of emergency plastic surgery patient management: “fasting times” and “injury to theatre time”", Clinical Governance: An International Journal, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 151-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777270310471630