According to reports, the number of serious decoders found in patients in hospitals in New Scotland has increased, but the province says it is only because they tell them differently.
However, a patient safety defender says that this is not comfort because they should not happen at all.
The number of scenarios 3 and 4 bases reported by the Department of Health in the triplicate in the triplicate in the average compared to the average in the last two years.
“That is not particularly alarming to me based on the data we have available for us, but certainly in general we are not where we would like to be as an organization and we recognize that we have an improvement to make and we are very, very committed to doing that job,” said Rochelle Currie, senior director of quality improvement of Nova Scotia Health.
The average was 21, but there were 70 from October to December 2024, although the province says that two of them occurred in the previous quarter.
Currie said she is worried about the last numbers, but they are not a surprise.
The province annually carries out a bombing of one day in October to identify stages 3 and 4 in which they are the worst and can lead to sepsis and death, and last year’s event coincided with a change in the policy on reports that added a new category of injuries called “unexpected.”
Currie said that studies have shown that most unstable wounds are, in fact, stage 3 or stage 4 that have begun to heal, which makes them more difficult to identify and classify.
New Scotland Health now informs those wounds along with the wounds of stage 3 and 4 and that is why the numbers increased the past autumn, he said.
Compared to the same quarter of the previous year, the number increased by 53 percent, and 49 percent of them were unstoppable, Currie said.
The numbers are informed quarterly on the reportable events website of the Department of Health. The province calls them by pressure ulcers, but they are plaques, also known as pressure injuries or pressure injuries.
You run a stubborn problem for years
Currie said that if “unstable” numbers are eliminated, the worst bases acquired in the hospital are only a bit.
But they have been a stubborn problem for years.
The Canadian Institute for Health Information does not track the data nationwide in just stage 3 and 4 of the bed, but has total numbers and the incidence rates for all stages of the bases informed in hospitals throughout Canada.
The numbers show that the New Scotland incident rate has been consistently higher than any other province in the last five years, and that its total number and the incidence rate doubled two years ago.
The instura says that it is not possible to compare one province with another because patient populations differ.
Currie said that patients with the hospital in New Scotland are usually older and more fragile and tend to have multiple chronic health problems that make them more susceptible to resources.
The lawyer says that the sessions are unacceptable
She said that it is not clear why the province’s numbers increased two years ago, but officials are now re -suffocating their efforts by adopting an approach throughout the province to share best practices.
“Pressure injuries are something that the organization takes very seriously and something that we are committed to improving,” he said.
“In fact, the prevention of pressure injuries has been identified as one of the main priorities of the organization.”
Katharina Kovacs Burns, president of patients for patient safety, Canada, said she believes that the number of decoders acquired in the hospital is not registered accurately throughout Canada and that the incidence is really greater.
The organization advocates patient safety of all kinds of damage, but the number of bases that reach stage 3 or 4 in the hospital is a critical concern, he said.
“Pressure injuries are one of those hidden incidents that seem to drag, but when they happen and results in the breakdown of the skin, then it is very difficult to heal.”
‘It’s preventable’
“When they reach stage 3 [or] 4, that means that there has been definitely attention to perform a risk assessment or to reposition patients or attend them in a way to prevent this skin from breaking, so that is the alarming part. “
Kovacs Burns said there are a variety of reasons why people receive panties, but carefully, they should not progress to the worst stages.
“It’s an event. It is preventable and I think there is no acceptable level for me. It should never happen.”
Kovacs Burns said that the family can help the occupied medical care personnel to prevent calmeras from becoming a problem.
She said patients should be regularly reviewed and move in bed or provided with devices to prevent the plates from becoming unhealthy wounds.
