Sal’s Stars of the Week: Benjamin Bakulu
(Introduced by Dalibor Gavranovic)
This week Sal’s Star of the week is Benjamin Bakulu.
Ben has been an educator since 2018 for Medicine, Palliative and Cardiac Programs. As all the other educators are supporting their teams and cross covering for each other on every day basis, Ben has been an integral part of 6A team. Ben is patient focused, driven to support staff in continuing education and working on patient flow improvements. When PRU transitioned to 5A Cardiology, he was very involved to support and educate staff, move appropriate equipment and supplies. Lately, there has been staff shortages on every unit, which leads to balancing the needs across the whole hospital. One morning 6A ended up being short a charge nurse, even though his schedule was solid booked, he was able to reschedule and find a support within educator group. He took partial charge role on the unit while supporting nurse who had minimal charge training. His calm demeanor, capabilities to listen and understand staff needs has led to positive outcomes and staff satisfaction.
Please join me in congratulating Ben on being the Sal’s star of the week.
Shout out to the Cardiac Sciences Website Team!
Our website team continues to explore ways to best promote this information across the health system – to providers, patients, and the public.
The CSMB website was recently featured in the Doctors Manitoba weekly Message to Members (Sept. 14, 2022): This new partnership will help promote our website, and invites the physician community at large to review the valuable resources available, apply to their practice, and provide feedback and content suggestions for future website enhancements. The feature introduces our new website, highlights the core content available and its benefits for improving access to care. Check out the latest feature! https://doctorsmanitoba.ca/managing-your-practice/weekly-member-message/member-message-september-14-2022#cardiac
Congrats to the website team and the cardiac community as a whole for your efforts to help keep the website content current, to continue to build on the rich resources available, and spread the message across your teams!
MitraClip Program at St. Boniface Hospital
On September 13, 2022, the MitraClip program at St. Boniface Hospital officially started. The first patient was an 87 year old female with severe mitral regurgitation, multiple co-morbidities but very functional. The procedure was done under general anesthesia, led by Drs. Kass and Shah and performed as a multi-disciplinary team (echo led by Drs. Barac and Promislow, and anesthesia by Dr. Van De Heever). One MitraClip XTW was placed in the middle scallops of the mitral valve and left with final trace mitral regurgitation. This is a resounding success and the entire team should be congratulated.
World Patient Safety Day 2022
On September 17, World Health Organization celebrated World Patient Safety Day 2022.
“Medications are the most widely utilized interventions in health care, and medication-related harm constitutes the greatest proportion of the total preventable harm due to unsafe care, let alone the economic and psychological burden imposed by such harm. Acknowledging this substantial burden and recognizing the complexity of medication-related harm prevention and reduction, the theme of World Patient Safety Day 2022 is “Medication Safety” (World Patient Safety Day 2022 (who.int)).
Canadian PS Week is celebrated Oct. 24-28, 2022. This year’s theme is Safer Care for Older Adults. For more info, contest details, how to get involved, and access to valuable resources like the medication safety ‘It’s Safe to Ask’ tool, please visit the Shared Health’s website at https://sharedhealthmb.ca/health-providers/patient-safety-week/
World Patient Safety Day: September 17, 2022 – Shared Health Intranet (sharedhealthmb.ca)
This Week’s Faculty Publications
Lauren A Yee, Hui-Chen Han, Brianna Davies, Charles M Pearman, Zachary W M Laksman, Jason D Roberts, Christian Steinberg, Rafik Tadros, Julia Cadrin-Tourigny, Christopher S Simpson, Martin Gardner, Ciorsti MacIntyre, Laura Arbour, Richard Leather, Anne Fournier, Martin S Green, Shane Kimber, Paul Angaran, Shubhayan Sanatani, Jacqueline Joza, Habib Khan , Jeffrey S Healey, Joseph Atallah, Colette Seifer, Andrew D Krahnn Sex Differences and Utility of Treadmill Testing in Long-QT Syndrome Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jul;48(7):801-810. doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06660-x. Epub 2022 May 19
