MEC Minute

From Stephen Thomas, MD
Chair, Medical Executive Committee

Today’s Minute

January 31, 2024

Team Upstate:

 

Please consider attending an extremely important grand rounds being offered by the Department of Surgery. 

 

The subject matter and title of the talk is, “Failure to Rescue in Trauma.” 

 

Broadly, failure to rescue (FTR) is the failure or delay in recognizing and responding to a hospitalized patient experiencing complications from a disease process or medical intervention. In many hospitals, FTR accounts for significant morbidity or mortality. Most importantly, FTR is preventable. 

 

Consider attending and learn more. 

 

February 7, 2024 

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM 

2231 Weiskotten Hall & Cisco WebEx

(https://upstate.webex.com/upstate/j.php?MTID=m1c4b680e4f5c457133af5105b3e9f82a

Meeting number: 2315 536 4372, Password: mmNjhbNA938

Join by phone: 1-415-655-0001)

 

SPEAKER:
Daniel N. Holena, MD, MCSE, FACS
Director of Research, Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin

 

TARGET AUDIENCE: Faculty, Residents, Medical Students, Ancillary Personnel 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Following this activity participants should be able to: 

  • To Provide a brief introduction to surgical outcomes research 
  • To understand the failure to rescue (FTR) metric as it pertains to trauma and emergency general surgery 
  • To describe the role of Nursing in FTR 

 

Thanks for reading,

Stephen

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