Month: November 2011

-Teknon organizes for the first time in Spain a week devoted entirely to medicine and surgery without blood directed to professionals and patients.

-The medicine without blood develops safer techniques and takes advantage of the resources of the patient.

-The rational use of blood medicine entails a reduction in the complications of transfusion and facilitates recovery of patients

Barcelona, November 2011- Teknon Foundation organizes the week I of medicine and surgery without blood for patients and health professionals from 7 to 12 November. These days, celebrated for the first time in Spain, have been structured on the basis of the medical specialties and is expected to an attendance of more than 600 professionals, as well as the follow-up online through the videostreming the Centre itself has been enabled for the occasion.

Blood-saving techniques are generating in the collective health care provider and the population in general increasing interest, not only because of ideological or religious beliefs, but because we are dealing with a much-needed resource as little that depends on donations. In addition, these techniques, from Centro Médico Teknon in all surgical specialties, especially in high complexity such as Oncology, cardiovascular surgery and Traumatology; They provide greater security to patients, preparing them before each intervention and in the case of need extra blood is used of the patient, thus decreasing potential complications.

For Dr. Xavier Soler, responsible for doctor of medicine and surgery without blood Teknon unit, the benefits of the rational use of blood are considerable as “ minimizes the risk of infections, eliminates the complications associated with transfusions and faster recovery for patients is and shorter hospital stay ”. And claims that “ we are not dealing with a new discipline, it is the natural evolution of the modern medicine applicable to all surgical specialties that should enhance and ensure maximum patient safety ”.

The unit of medicine and surgery without blood of Centro Médico Teknon, with extensive experience and more than 2,500 patients treated, offers a modern, quality and very safe surgery free of the effects and potential risks of the blood and its derivatives. A team of multidisciplinary, highly specialized in the use of techniques without blood, composed of surgeons, anaesthetists, intensivistas, Hematologists and nursing staff coordinated by a specialist doctor evaluates the personal needs of each patient and determines, for each case, the application of those medical and surgical more efficient techniques to reduce the consumption of bloodreduce the need for transfusions of donors and even carrying out surgery without blood.

Bloodless Surgery is to apply a variety of procedures to prevent blood loss and minimize or eliminate transfusion. A set of strategies which applied so combined or in isolation prevents the use of blood and blood products. To achieve this objective, the unit of medicine and surgery without blood Teknon, equipped with the equipment and the latest technology necessary, follows three lines of action: to minimize losses, return blood from the patient through appropriate surgical and anaesthetic techniques and the use of pharmacological substances that stimulate the endogenous production of blood.

Since its inception, Centro Médico Teknon has treated patients as well so requiring blood saving procedures. Given the importance and evolution of the techniques that reverted directly in the safety of patients, Teknon formalized a year ago the creation of the unity of bloodless medicine and surgery, becoming the only Center in Spain which deals with the surgery without blood from the multidisciplinary perspective and that applies to all mé specialtiesDICO-surgical.

Barcelona, November 2011- the past Monday, Oct. 17th pharmaceutical company Ferrer opened the first TV campaign for the popular panadol, with the broadcast of a spot in prime time. The campaign on TV, with a duration of 5 weeks alternating two spots made by agency Healthy People focused on back pain and headache, where the approach and positioning of Panadol focuses on rapid pain relief.

Panadol, one of the brands of greater recognition in the homes of our country, began a new phase with the objective that the message about the effectiveness of Panadol reaches the consumer in a way more clear, direct and closer and as always with the collaboration of the pharmacist.

Communication campaign complete with inserts in pharmaceutical publications, campaign on buses in the cities of Madrid and Barcelona and, of course channel Panadol – Ferrer on YouTube.

At the indiscriminate pay cuts, the number of employees or the health activity experiencing some autonomous communities, indicate that it has to start from the idea of clinical effectiveness, and point to the budget in health care setting should move toward selective financing of medical benefitsmedicines and technologies. To this end, proposed “ disinvestment ” in everything that does not add health; IE leave funded partially or completely drugs, devices, equipment, procedures or services that add a little clinical value. In order to perform this action based on scientific evidence, suggest to follow the example of the National Institute for Health and Cilinical Excellence (NICE) English, with an assessment agency Spanish State level, with management autonomy and distanced from the central and regional governments.

Among the first steps pose a new transparent management of waiting lists, based on mechanisms of prioritization based on the severity of the patient and the expected benefits of the clinical performance. They also indicate that change the current pharmaceutical co-payment by inefficient and inequitable, eliminating the arbitrary distinction between assets and pensioners, to evolve towards a system based on income, but corrective factors to improve the fairness of the current system as they would be setting ceilings on annual contribution, total exemption from the lowest incomes and special conditions in cases of chronic disease or multipatología.

With regard to the working conditions of health professionals abound in a progressive and non-traumatic desfuncionarización of professional activity, with a greater weight of variable remuneration linked to objectives and propose also to avoid the payments by Act in the case of employees (the so-called “ peonadas ”). In the case of primary health care indicates the need to reorient the existing structure towards a model of grouping of health professionals to take economic risks arising from their greater or lesser efficiency. They also allude to the need for clear medical specialties to promote collaboration among them. Bet, also on delinking managerial and senior management positions of the “ electoral boots ” and professionalize those posts through competitions of concurrency and periodic evaluation of the performance. In the general area of professionals, they also indicated the need to correct the current handling of conflicts of interest with meticulous implementation of the incompatibilities, and with strict requirement of compliance with contractual obligations of all public employees.

Also in the above proceedings, emphasizes the need to move towards the efficient management of fragile, chronic patients and terminals, which requires changes in the structure to organizational network health, enhancing strategies of link between primary and care specialist, developing new case management services, and creating perfectly coordinated hospital centres mothership and subregional networks. They also emphasize the urgency of linking in real healthcare to the public health (collective reduction policies risk environmental, work, school, road, nutritional, personal habits, etc.).

From his point of view, must be reformed the governing bodies of the SNS, avoiding the duplication of structures and efforts, which should articulate consensus between the General Administration of the State and the autonomous communities in any agency of a technical nature with equal representation of the regional health services. On the other hand, they point out that it is necessary to redefine the role of private initiative, but to do so, they stress the need previously a depoliticized, independent assessment.

The experts signatories of the document considered that the detailed proposals, given the current economic climate, “ are delayed ”. In his view, “ only a restructuring of public health at the addresses mentioned above, can be avoided that budget cuts will inevitably lead to an erosion of the SNS and a loss in the quality of care ”.

Firmante:

-Enrique Bernal Delgado, doctor. Policy and health services research unit. Aragones of the Health Sciences Institute. IIS Aragon.

-Carlos Campillo Artero, medical. Conselleria de Salut i Consum of them Illes Balears.

-Beatriz González loì-Varcácel, catedrática of Métodos quantitative in Economía and management of the University of las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

-Ricard Meneu of Guillerna, Vice President of the Foundation Institute for research in health services (IISS)

-Jaume Puig-Junoy, Professor of the Department of Economics and business of the University Pompeu Fabra.

-José Ramón Repullo Labrador, head of the Department of planning and economy of the health of the national school of health of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III.

-Pink urban Garrido, Professor of applied economics. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.