Ahmed Alayoubi
Al-Yamamah Women and Children's Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Title: Maternal Critical Complex
Biography
Biography: Ahmed Alayoubi
Abstract
- Critical, because all these areas deal with critical patients.
- Maternity, because all are related to pregnant women.
- Complex, because they congregate nearby in one area.
OBGYN Emergency Room:
Is the main reception of any case coming, it is a specialized ER that deals with Obstetrical and gynecological cases by triaging them and accordingly to their final destination.
Operating Room:
An operating room(s) that is dedicated for OBGYN emergency cases.
Labor and delivery Room:
For those in active labor, an area for active management.
High Dependency Unit:
It is an intermediate care unit, or step down, or level-I ICU.
- It is one area from administration point of view; all the policies are carried out similarly in all areas, like medication protocols, booking priority code, admission discharge policies….etc. By this, work process is carried out in harmony.
- Once a patient is admitted through ER any further destination within the CMC is like moving a patient from one bed to another within the same ward, thus preventing bureaucracy, delay in care, personal conflicts, and jeopardy to patient's safety.
- Any obstacle, problem, or complaint is easily monitored and corrected.
- Any point of care test can serve the whole area, like a CBC machine, or coagulation profile, or patient controlled analgesia PCA pump….etc.
- Interdepartmental relation between the CMC and radiology department, laboratory and blood bank, pharmacy, will be more defined and clear.
- Forms, check lists; flow charts are unified.
- Data, census, quality indicators, and performance, all are unified.
- OVR's, supply, maintenance, baby protection, infection control, patient safety, training, rotation of staff from one area to another, familiarity with different places is so helpful and important.
- Code Orange (massive transfusion) implementation will be easier and more reliable.