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On 29 April and 1 May 2015, thirty-eight surgical trainees from the Oxford and Severn Deaneries attended the first Bristol Oxford Surgical Trials Course (BOSTiC) - a joint initiative between the Oxford Surgical Intervention Trials Unit (SITU) at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and the Bristol Surgical Trials Centre (BSTC).
My patient’s emergency procedure was Interventional Radiology-related or an Endoscopic Interventions (e.g. stent insertion, ERCP), not surgery – are they eligible?
Answer Yes, all emergency abdominal procedures are eligible – of course, the patient has to clinically deteriorate to be included.
How do I define a scan as ‘emergency’ or ‘unplanned’?
Answer All scans REQUESTED outside of the normal working hours of 9am to 5pm Monday-Friday are counted as unplanned. All scans where the RICHER tool (a communication tool developed by RESPOND) had to be used in the request also count as unplanned.