OREANDA-NEWS. April 24, 2015. LiDCO Group Plc (AIM: LID), the cardiovascular monitoring company, announces that clinical outcome data regarding the use of the LiDCOrapid in a quality improvement programme will be presented at the International Forum on Quality & Safety in Healthcare today at the ExCeL centre in London. Now in its 20th year, the International Forum connects over 3,000 healthcare leaders and practitioners worldwide and provides a setting for them to meet, learn, share local knowledge and recognise accomplishments in improving quality and safety for patients and communities across the world.

Dr Nial Quiney, Consultant Anaesthetist and Clinical Director Emergency Care at the Royal Surrey County Hospital has been invited to present his emergency laparotomy study* and associated quality improvement programme at the Forum. The session will highlight how to improve outcomes for patients undergoing emergency high-risk surgery. During his talk, Dr Quiney will illustrate how the principles of enhanced recovery using LiDCOrapid for the fluid and blood flow monitoring elements can be translated into a simple quality improvement programme and care bundle for patients undergoing emergency general surgery resulting in a significant reduction in the death rate.

Approximately 50,000 emergency laparotomies are carried out in the UK each year and on average 15% of these patients will die within 30 days of the surgery. There is a significant reduction in the risk-adjusted mortality of these patients using the LiDCOrapid, 5.97 more lives were saved per 100 patients treated compared with outcomes before implementation of this quality improvement programme bundle.

Commenting, Terry O'Brien, Chief Executive Officer of LiDCO, said: "Dr Quiney's presentation follows on from the study that was published in the British Journal of Surgery in November 2014.  The session will give a practical overview to this prestigious international audience of how to apply an effective care bundle which will significantly reduce the worldwide high mortality rate of patients undergoing emergency surgery."

* This study was previously published in the British Journal of Surgery 2014; 10.1002/bjs.9658