Lower Limb Amputation: Working together? - NCEPOD - … · 2016-05-27 · ... rehab & discharge 35...
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Introduction
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Introduction
• Peripheral arterial disease – Affects 20% adults in Europe and North America
– In the UK 500-1000/million PAD, 1-2% require amputation
– LLA 8-15% in people with diabetes with up to 70% dying <5 years of surgery
• Hospital inpatient data - 5,498 FCE (2009/10), & 530 deaths in England alone
• Previous reports indicate mortality is high reflecting age and comorbidites
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Introduction
• Wide geographic variation in the number of amputations carried out
• Peri-operative cardiac complications are the leading cause of morbidity & mortality following surgery
• Previous guidelines – VSGBI
– Diabetes UK
– BACPAR
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Aim
To explore remediable factors in the process of care of patients undergoing major lower limb amputation
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Objectives
• Pre-operative care – Access to multidisciplinary teams and a multiprofessional pathway of
care – Pain management – Clinical care of the patient – Optimisation of comorbidities, including diabetic control
• Peri-operative care – The scheduling of surgery, including priority and cancellations – Seniority of clinicians (surgery and anaesthesia) – Operation undertaken – Antibiotic prophylaxis, venous thromboembolism prophylaxis – Diabetes control – Anaesthetic care
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Objectives
• Post operative care – Access to critical care
– Diabetes control
– Pain management
– Wound care
– Rehabilitation
• Organisational factors – Hub & spoke arrangements
– Management of diabetic foot sepsis including multidisciplinary care
– Access to surgery
– Availability of rehabilitation and prosthetic services
– Submission of data to the NVD (NVR)
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Objectives
• Hospital participation – Organisational data
– Clinical data
• Study population – 6 month data collection period
– OPCS codes – amputation of leg or operations on amputation stump
– ICD10 codes – diseases of the circulatory system or diabetes
• Case identification – Local reporters identified all cases
– 7 cases per hospital/3 per clinician
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Method
• Questionnaires – Organisational – Clinical – Advisor assessment form – Therapy assessment form
• Case notes – Medical notes from admission to discharge – MDT notes – Imaging reports – Consent forms – Operation notes (including anaesthetic records) – Nursing notes – Rehabilitation (including physiotherapy) notes – Drug charts
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Data returns
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Patient overview
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Reason for admission
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Admission category
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Organisation of care
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Pre-operative care
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Pathway for admission
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Admitting ward
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First consultant review
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First consultant review
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Co-morbidities
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Co-morbidities
• In 123/138 patients an adequate attempt to control co-morbidities was made
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Pre-operative medical review
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Peri-operative care
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Consultant vascular surgeon review
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Consultant vascular surgeon review
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Vascular surgeon review
1:4 emergency admissions not seen within 72h
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Indication for amputation
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Angiography and duplex ultrasound
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Inadequate assessment of limb
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Time from assessment to operation
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Delay between assessment and surgery
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Limb salvage prior to amputation
Advisors: appropriate in a further 22 (7.7%) patients
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MDT
58/140 (41%) had no MDT for amputees
(Organisational data)
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MDT discussion
40% discussed: Centralisation should = dedicated MDT
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Pre-operative support services
349 diabetics
Potential impact on post-op recovery, rehab & discharge 35
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Overall assessment of pre-operative care
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Overall assessment of pre-operative care
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Consent
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Consent
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Consent: Poor or unacceptable information
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Pre-operative investigations
Advisors considered work-up adequate in 92.6%
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Prophylactic antibiotics
Organisational data: 131/137 (96%) had a protocol for prophylaxis
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MRSA screening
85% screened: 96% units screen routinely (Organisational data)
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Urgency of surgery and type of theatre
n = 333 n = 251
57% emergency theatre QIF >75% elective
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Time to operation
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Time to operation
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Impact of the delay
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Duration of the delay
Significant delay in 118/617 (19%) patients
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Reasons for delay in surgery
*Transfer, W/E Critical care bed
64 beyond surgeon’s control 52 organisational or because using CEPOD theatre
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Pre-operative anaesthetic review
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Pre-operative anaesthetic review
Surgery: consultant present for 85% cases
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Anaesthetic care
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Methods of anaesthesia
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The operation
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Type of amputation performed
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Seniority of surgeon operating and in theatre
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Grade of surgeon
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Appropriate procedure undertaken
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Reason for inappropriate surgery
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Intra- and post operative monitoring
42 immediate post-op complications
10 = bleeding 10 = cardiac 6 = hypotension
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Post operative surgical care
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Post operative destination and outcome
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Escalation of care
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Escalation of care
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Escalation of care
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Stump complications
164/437 (37%) had a complication
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Stump complications
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Stump complications
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Post operative medical care
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Post operative complications
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Post operative complications
Frequent occurrence:
• 249/529 (47.1%) Advisor reviewed cases
• 290/628 (46.2%) Clinical questionnaire
• Medical twice as common as stump related complications
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Post operative physician review
• 319/529 (59.2%) patients reviewed by at least one non-surgical specialist (excludes microbiology)
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Post operative physician review
No relationship between:
• Complications and physician review • Kidney failure and renal medicine review • Myocardial infarction/arrhythmia and cardiology review
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Physician involvement
• Pre operative 39.7%
• Post operative 59.2%
• Whole pathway 66.1%
Recommendation:
Model of medical care that includes regular review by physician and surgeon throughout the in-patient stay.
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Rehabilitation and discharge
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Co-ordination of care
• Complex patients • Mobility changes admission to discharge • Planning and care co-ordination important
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Early planning of rehabilitation
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Early planning of rehabilitation
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Pre-operative discharge planning
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Named individual available
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Rehabilitation
• 91/409 (22.2%) cases additional review appropriate
Most common omissions: • Psychology 38 • Amputee rehabilitation 33 • Foot care team 21
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Post-operative physiotherapy
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Physiotherapy
• 78/126 (62.4%) not suitable for early walking aids
• 36 cases where use delayed inappropriately
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Falls risk assessment
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Falls
Adverse consequences (Advisors): • Eleven stump complications – 3 required further surgery
• One fracture
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Prosthetic services
• 124/169 hospitals formal arrangements for referral to prosthetics
• When prosthetics not available on site average distance 21 miles (<1– 100)
• Referral generally by combination of medical staff and physiotherapists
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Prosthetics
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Overall quality of rehabilitation
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Discharge planning
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Discharge planning
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Care beyond the acute hospital
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Discharge from hospital
57.3%
12.4% 5%
25.3%
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Delayed discharge
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Delayed discharge
• Overall 75 cases of delay for non-medical reasons 100
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Diabetes care
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Diabetes care
• 349/628 patients diabetes (55.6%)
• Age 68 (no diabetes, 71)
• “Complex” diabetes
– 75/349 (21.5%) type 1 diabetes
– Population 10% type 1 diabetes
– 183/313 (58.5%) on insulin
– Population 40% diabetic patients on insulin
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Pre-operative review
• 73/132 (55.3%) hospitals performing amputations, policy of routine review by diabetes specialist nurse (DNS)
• 160/274 (58.4%) pre-op review by DNS
• 123/217 (56.7%) peer reviewed cases advice given by diabetes team on blood sugar control
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Insulin use and DNS review
Advisors’ view • All patients would benefit from DNS review pre-op
• Review by diabetologist would potentially improve care and optimise co-morbidity
• Only 31 cases (9%) had surgery on day of admission
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Insulin infusions - hypoglycaemia
• 173/278 (62.2%) patients received insulin infusion
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Insulin infusions - management
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Glycaemic control
• Poor or unacceptable at some point in pathway in at least 26.7% of cases 109
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Diabetes treatments
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Diabetes prescribing
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Diabetes prescribing
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Outcomes and diabetes
Complications: (Clinical Questionnaire) No differences: • Individual
complications • Infections • Cardiovascular 30 day mortality: • Diabetes 11.6% • No diabetes 13.3%
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Diabetes care
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Outcomes
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Outcomes at 30 days
407/622 65.4%
138/622 22.2%
77/622 12.4%
2009 VSGBI AGM: mortality 17% HES, 9% NVD
2010 VSGBI QIF: mortality <5% by 2015
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Outcome by mode of admission
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Morbidity & mortality meetings
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VSGBI QIF Pre-operative aspects of care
Implemented The decision with the patient to perform amputation should be timed and recorded in the notes
Controllable risk factors should be optimised
Antithrombotic prophylaxis should be prescribed and continued at least until discharge from hospital
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VSGBI QIF Pre-operative aspects of care
Implemented The decision with the patient to perform amputation should be timed and recorded in the notes
Controllable risk factors should be optimised
Antithrombotic prophylaxis should be prescribed and continued at least until discharge from hospital
Not implemented Pain should be controlled, and the pain team involved if needed
Patients should be assessed and managed by specialist MDT
A named individual (identified pre-op) should be responsible for each patient (co-ordinate care, rehab and discharge planning)
All patients should have formal risk assessment by, or in consultation with a consultant anaesthetist
Discharge planning and rehabilitation should be considered pre-operatively, and review by the rehabilitation team encouraged
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VSGBI QIF Peri-operative aspects of care
Implemented Anaesthesia should be given by a senior anaesthetist (post FRCA); a trainee should have consultant supervision available
Amputation should only be undertaken in a facility with ready access to blood products and access to level III critical care
All patients to have antibiotic prophylaxis, type of antibiotic according to local policy
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VSGBI QIF Peri-operative aspects of care
Implemented Anaesthesia should be given by a senior anaesthetist (post FRCA); a trainee should have consultant supervision available
Amputation should only be undertaken in a facility with ready access to blood products and access to level III critical care
All patients to have antibiotic prophylaxis, type of antibiotic according to local policy
Not implemented Operation should be undertaken on a planned operating list in normal working hours (target 75% of all major amputations)
Patients not on a planned list should have surgery within 48h of decision to operate and no patient should be deferred more than once (unless new medical contraindications)
Aim to undertake below knee amputation (BKA) wherever appropriate and have below knee: above knee ratio > 1
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VSGBI QIF Post-operative aspects of care
Implemented Amputation should be undertaken in a unit with 24/7 network or local vascular cover, with access to multi-professional support (cardiac, renal, respiratory, diabetes)
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VSGBI QIF Post-operative aspects of care
Implemented Amputation should be undertaken in a unit with 24/7 network or local vascular cover, with access to multi-professional support (cardiac, renal, respiratory, diabetes)
Not implemented There should be a formal pain management protocol, and access to an acute pain team
There should be prompt access to a local amputee rehab team including early mobilisation and physiotherapy
There should be continued discharge planning home, or to an appropriate facility
There should be formal referral to a specialist rehabilitation team (prosthetics)
Optimal medical management and health education should be completed before discharge
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Overall assessment of care
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Principal recommendations
Best practice clinical care pathway to support QIF
A ‘best practice’ clinical care pathway, supporting the aims of the Vascular Society’s Quality Improvement Framework for Major Amputation Surgery, and covering all aspects of the management of patients requiring amputation should be developed.
This should include protocols for transfer, the development of a dedicated multidisciplinary team (MDT) for care planning of amputees and access to other medical specialists and health professionals both pre- and post operatively to reflect the standards of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the British Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Amputee Rehabilitation and the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine.
It should promote greater use of dedicated vascular lists for surgery and the use of multidisciplinary records.
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Principal recommendations
Diabetics should be reviewed by specialist diabetes team both pre- and post-operatively
All patients with diabetes undergoing lower limb amputation should be reviewed both pre- and post operatively by the specialist diabetes team to optimise control of diabetes and management of co-morbidities.
The pre-operative review should not delay the operation in patients requiring emergency surgery.
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Principal recommendations
Vascular review within 24 hours if admitted under another specialty
When patients are admitted to hospital as an emergency with limb-threatening ischaemia, including acute diabetic foot problems, they should be assessed by a relevant consultant within 12 hours of the decision to admit or a maximum of 14 hours from the time of arrival at the hospital, in line with current guidance.
If this is not a consultant vascular surgeon then one should be asked to review the patient within 24 hours of admission.
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Principal recommendations
Commence planning for rehabilitation and discharge as early as possible
For patients undergoing major limb amputation, planning for rehabilitation and subsequent discharge should commence as soon as the requirement for amputation is identified.
All patients should have access to a suitably qualified amputation/discharge co-ordinator.
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Principal recommendations
Surgery on planned operating lists within 48 hours
As recommended in the Quality Improvement Framework for Major Amputation Surgery (VSGBI), amputations should be done on a planned operating list during normal working hours and within 48 hours of the decision to operate.
Any case waiting longer than this should be the subject of local case review to identify reasons for delay and improve subsequent organisation of care.
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