Whole body wash at the RSM
Posted by capdocblog on April 3, 2008
The Third Best Practice meeting took place at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Chandos House, London, on the 18th March 2008. Moderated by Dr Rowland Hill, this cohort of key opinion leaders including Professor Judith Tanner, Professor Dinah Gould, Professor Richard James, Dr Angela Kearns, Dr Carol Pellowe, Helen Jenkinson and Susan Pirie, met together to discuss issues and formulate guidelines which will allow healthcare professionals to give best advice to patients about to undertake any form of surgical intervention.
A resume of past meetings (Best Practice 1 and 2) was given by Dr A. Kearns, followed by other presentations by the panel. Subjects such as the Health Act, insights into the Health Commission’s assessment of infection control; the Association for Perioperative Practice’s ( AfPP’s) view on hygienic measures for elective surgical patients; whole body washing as a basis for infection prevention and control; recent insights into whole body washing as a basis for infection prevention and control, and pre- surgical whole body antiseptic washing, were presented and discussed by the group.
The group also undertook a period of free discussion and intense debate on guidance for using whole body antiseptic washing to establish criteria which could form the basis of guidelines for proposals to be used as a basis for skin de- colonisation protocols in the community as well as hospitals.
Following this important meeting, there will shortly be a Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) publication of résumés of key papers from all three Best Practice Meetings. This far reaching publication will also include Best Practice Guidelines for total body washing, to enable healthcare professionals and patients to have a better understanding of the requirements and recommendations to reduce post- operative infection rates and give best advice to patients. .
For further details of the day and to be advised of the publication through the RSM, please contact Jill Lashmar at MJM Communications. jill@bestpracticemedical.org
