Peter Charles Tye · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 15 Feb 2016•Plymouth, Torbay and South Devon

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Concerns
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Recipients
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Responses found
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Stated actions
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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised2

  1. Need for improvement in central venous line insertion processes
    Part of recurring concern: Unsafe management of central venous cathetersPart of recurring concern: Unsafe patient cannulation
  2. Need for improvement in central venous line removal processes
    Part of recurring concern: Unsafe management of central venous catheters

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.3

  1. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

    Develop arrangements to monitor incident reports.

  2. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

    Develop arrangements to publicise lessons learned from incidents.

  3. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

    Discuss Mr. Tye’s case at the next meeting and agree a mechanism for cascading the information.

Respondent positions A position is what a recipient says about a concern when it does not describe a specific action.2

  1. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

    A standard response to inadvertent carotid puncture cannot be established because the evidence base is unclear and management must be individualized.

    Unable to actThe respondent said that a constraint prevented them from taking the relevant action.
  2. Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine

    Mandating a higher number of line-insertion procedures would not prevent this complication.

    Disputes the concernThe respondent disagreed with part of the concern or the basis for it.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Need for improvement in central venous line insertion processes

Wider context from the report

“At an Inquest touching the death of Peter Charles Tye, I received evidence from ████████ that improvements at Derriford Hospital had been made following the events during which a central venous line was misplaced into an artery. A Root Cause Analysis has indicated various improvements which can be made. These improvements concern both the insertion and the removal of central venous lines. Adoption of those processes is likely to reduce the numbers of deaths from misplaced lines. Details have been shared with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. In my view deaths might be reduced by the promulgation of this good practice. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Unsafe management of central venous catheters; Unsafe patient cannulation.

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How this individual concern was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. Response links show a clear evidence connection; they do not assign responsibility.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Need for improvement in central venous line removal processes

Wider context from the report

“At an Inquest touching the death of Peter Charles Tye, I received evidence from ████████ that improvements at Derriford Hospital had been made following the events during which a central venous line was misplaced into an artery. A Root Cause Analysis has indicated various improvements which can be made. These improvements concern both the insertion and the removal of central venous lines. Adoption of those processes is likely to reduce the numbers of deaths from misplaced lines. Details have been shared with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. In my view deaths might be reduced by the promulgation of this good practice. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Unsafe management of central venous catheters.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Develop arrangements to monitor incident reports.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The FICM and ICS Joint Standards Committee are currently discussing how to monitor incident reports and publicise the lessons learnt as a result of such incidents. Mr. Tye’s case will be discussed at the next meeting where a mechanism for cascading this information will be agreed.”

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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Develop arrangements to publicise lessons learned from incidents.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The FICM and ICS Joint Standards Committee are currently discussing how to monitor incident reports and publicise the lessons learnt as a result of such incidents. Mr. Tye’s case will be discussed at the next meeting where a mechanism for cascading this information will be agreed.”

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Discuss Mr. Tye’s case at the next meeting and agree a mechanism for cascading the information.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The FICM and ICS Joint Standards Committee are currently discussing how to monitor incident reports and publicise the lessons learnt as a result of such incidents. Mr. Tye’s case will be discussed at the next meeting where a mechanism for cascading this information will be agreed.”

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

A standard response to inadvertent carotid puncture cannot be established because the evidence base is unclear and management must be individualized.

Verbatim wording from the response

“As acknowledged in the report the evidence base for dealing with inadvertent carotid artery puncture is not clear, but again we would expect this to be something that is discussed in order to demonstrate competence at this procedure. The authors of the report recognise that in Mr. Tye’s case there was little they could do to mitigate the complication once it had occurred due to the instability of the patient. This is unfortunately the nature of intensive care medicine and when patients who are critically unwell develop iatrogenic complications of any kind, management of the complication will have to be considered on an individual patient basis.”

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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Mandating a higher number of line-insertion procedures would not prevent this complication.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The ICM training programme requires trainees to understand and recognise complications from line insertions however, the number of procedures required for sign off is not mandated nor do we believe that this type of complication would be prevented if this were the case. The spiral nature of our curriculum requires the trainee to demonstrate increasing levels of competence for this procedure resulting in a competence which would indicate that the trainee was capable of independent level practice. This is assessed by means of workplace based assessments, performed by consultant trainers who would also assess the trainee's knowledge of the indications for and complications of the procedure.”

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