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Oncology Staff Program Spotlight 2 ADVANCES AUGUST 13, 2015 NEWS FROM THE REGION’S PREMIER ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER Emergency surgery needed? Activate ESTAT! New process defines rapid response team, sets 30-minute goal Surgeons and other caregivers at The University of Kansas Hospital have developed a unique team de- signed to move critical patients into surgery safely and more efficiently. Called the Emergency Surgical Transport Assessment Team (ESTAT), it is believed to be the ESTAT is designed to move unstable first surgical-based rapid response patients into an operating room within team among U.S. hospitals. 30 minutes of the team’s activation. anesthesiologists, surgeons, outcomes, several specialty rapid The hospital already has a pharmacists, nurses and other response teams were created to surgical process in place for members of the team, gives them OR staff. It’s up to the surgeon respond to stroke, heart and trauma patients in the Emergency defined roles and ensures they are or attending physician, using the other emergency conditions in the Department. But what about a alerted quickly to allow the most ESTAT criteria checklist, to deter- hospital. The teams’ life-saving ac- patient already in the hospital timely, coordinated care possible. mine if a patient needs emergent complishments are one reason the who needs surgery right now? “ESTAT makes the process surgery. The team likely will be hospital’s mortality rates are among The goal: move them into an op- more efficient,” Pichoff said. “It’s activated several times a month. the lowest in the nation. erating room within 30 minutes important we capture essential ESTAT is part of a growing “With the success of those of the team’s activation. information about the patient, number of rapid response teams rapid response teams, it made Anesthesiologist Amy Pichoff, have the right equipment and are at the hospital. The first started sense that we expand the concept MD, who helped develop and prepared for what we’re going to in 2005 to provide quick inter- to our surgical arena,” said Cris coordinate ESTAT, said physi- be doing in the OR. It’s critical for vention for any emergent medical Pritchard, RN, nurse manager of cians and hospital staff responded this to be a seamless experience.” issues among patients, visitors the hospital’s Surgical ICU, which to those situations in the past, The new process, which and staff on the main campus. partnered with Anesthesiology but the new process designates debuted Aug. 3, includes Due to that team’s great physicians on the new project. By the Numbers: Medical oncology care To suggest a By the Numbers, email [email protected]. Units 41, 42 and 45 at The Medical oncology Blood and marrow Average daily BMT Average monthly University of Kansas Hospital treat patients transplants inpatients chemotherapy hematology/oncology patients discharged performed (fiscal year) doses (hospitalwide) and those who have blood and 2009 15.6 marrow transplants (BMT). The 2012 1,310 2008 119 2010 15.3 2007 447 highly specialized units have 19.1 2013 1,347 2009 151 2011 2008 467 expanded to accommodate 21.7 2014 1,478 2010 180 2012 2009 586 demand (see story on page 2). 2011 190 2013 26.8 2010 624 2012 220 2014 29.8 2011 516 34.7 2013 267 2015 2012 536 Unit 41 20 2014 296 2013 780 Rooms on the Unit 42 2015 349 2014 917 29 three units Unit 45 20 69 2015 919 Events PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT Musical healing – Experience Oncology staff: passion and courage a musical acupuncture session Among the more than 40 inpa- for alleviating pain and learn why music and sound help move tient care units at The University energy in the body, much like of Kansas Hospital, three of them acupuncture needles do. The – Units 41, 42 and 45 – function class is 2:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, as a uniquely cohesive group. at Turning Point: The Center for They have to. They are the Hope and Healing in Leawood. medical oncology units, where Call 913-574-0900 to register. physicians, nurses and others care for patients who suffer from Introduction to mindful- blood diseases such as leukemia ness – Mindfulness is being and lymphoma or have received fully present in the moment blood and marrow transplants for and becoming fully aware of their advanced stages of cancer. what is happening now. Learn Heather Male, MD, the how to use the awareness of hospital’s hematology/oncology the present to change stress- Margo Sweany, RN, with Aubrey Williams, embraces the emotional aspects of ful thinking. Explore how to medical director, describes the caring for medical oncology patients. retrain your brain using simple trio of units as a “hospital within exercises that will change how a hospital.” With approximately nurse manager, said the units’ stay long, about nine days per visit, you experience and manage the 200 nurses and other staff, the physicians and staff display but most patients on the three stress in your life. The session is units specialize in patients’ strength and passion. It is a units face multiple readmissions 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, at complex treatments, which range reflection of their patients, who for chemotherapy treatment cycles. The University of Kansas Cancer from complicated chemotherapy understand mortality rates are Margo Sweany, RN, has Center-Lee’s Summit. Call regimens to participation in high for their diseases. cared for oncology patients at 913-574-0900 to register. clinical trials. “Our patient population the hospital more than 30 years. The units have grown sig- is amazing,” she said. “They “When I tell people what I do, Blood drive – The Community nificantly in recent years (see are some of the sickest of our they say, ‘Isn’t that depressing?’” Blood Center’s next blood By the Numbers on page 1), hospital’s patients, yet they have she said. drive at the main campus is bolstered by The University of such an insightful and coura- “I tell them it’s just the opposite. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, in Kansas Cancer Center’s 2012 the Student Center’s Francisco geous approach to life. And we We’re in a position to help patients Lounge. Walk-ins are welcome. designation as a National Cancer have the opportunity to embrace during a very difficult time of their The center is the primary sup- Institute facility. Unit 45 opened that relationship with them.” lives. They are kind and apprecia- plier of blood to patients at The in January 2014, and Unit 41 The units’ patients and staff tive, and they have figured out University of Kansas Hospital. expanded later that year. spend much time together, too. what’s important in their lives,” she Cyndy Steen, RN, Unit 41 Not only is their average length of added. “And so have we.” Komen race – The University of Kansas Cancer Center again is forming a team for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. EXPOSURE The annual event, a fundraiser for breast cancer research and patient care, is Sunday, Sept. 13, Guard at Worlds of Fun. Deadline to register online is 9 p.m. Sept. 4. training To register for our team online: About a dozen members of the • Go to komenkansascity.org Kansas Air National Guard’s 190th • Select “Komen Race for the Medical Group, stationed in Topeka, Cure,” then “Register” are spending two weeks training at • Select “Join an Existing Team” The University of Kansas Hospital. • Log in or select “First Time In the Surgical ICU, Staff Sergeant Registration” Keri Christian (left), a medical • Find “Company/Corporate technician, helped Jennifer Name” Williams, RN, change a patient’s • Select “The University of sutures. Members of the Guard Kansas Cancer Center” and join also are training in the Emergency Department, Neuroscience ICU, More events are at kumed.com/ Burn and other units. The training event-detail. will be held annually. Nursing Report: ‘Forever Forward’ In the News The University of Kansas Hospital’s Nursing Annual Report, A recap of recent articles, TV segments and other media coverage of which debuted Aug. 11, showcases the theme “Forever Forward.” the region’s leading academic medical center The annual report is online at kumed.com. It features inspiring patient stories, photos and How Polsinelli reached top of healthcare profession – Kansas City outcomes organized by the Business Journal, July 28. Kansas City-based Polsinelli PC built the nation’s hospital’s Five-Star areas largest healthcare law practice, prompted by the firm’s work with The of focus: Service, Quality, University of Kansas Hospital starting in the late 1990s, according to People, Cost and Growth. Polsinelli CEO Russ Welsh. “After doing that work for KU, which was “Nurses at The News Briefs News such a positive experience, we stepped back in the early 2000s and University of Kansas asked if this was scalable,” he said. Today, Polsinelli has more than 200 Hospital make a tremen- healthcare lawyers and professionals in 18 offices nationwide. dous contribution to the patient experience Urging limits to sonograms – KCTV 5 News, July 27. Experts are as advocates, decision- warning against unnecessary sonograms during pregnancy. They suggest makers, educators and Debbie Pennington, RN, visited sonograms should be used only to monitor key stages in a fetus’s growth collaborators. They are with 1-year-old Kaden during his well- at 12 weeks, 20 weeks and 30 to 32 weeks. The University of Kansas always thinking Forever ness check in the hospital’s Neonatal Hospital’s Carl Weiner, MD, discussed the medical need for sonograms Forward,” said Tammy Medical Home. during pregnancy and suggested the same physician should conduct all Peterman, RN, executive pregnancy sonograms to accurately monitor developmental stages.