Chaloemphrakiat 10 South Ward
Chaloemphrakiat 10 South Ward was earlier called Mahidol Bampen 1 Ward. It is the first building in Siriraj Hospital. Today, it has 25 beds for pre and postoperative orthopaedic male patients aged 15 years up. The main goal of patient care and rehabilitation is patient safety. We have to ensure that patients do not suffer complication or impact from major risks. The ward also receives patients transferred from other hospitals because of complications of the disease with high risks from surgery. These patients need special care from specialist with high experience and expertise as well as a multi-disciplinary team. This includes patients with bone tumor, Brachial Plexus Injury (BPI) and cervical spondylosis myelopathy (CSM). The ward also receives accident patients from nearby area and those transferred from other hospitals due to complications, such as multiple fractures, older persons with fractures and other diseases that need care from specialists and multi-disciplinary team. Top five groups of patients (2014 statistics) are trauma, hand injury, spine, tumor and arthroplasty. The Chaloemphrakiat 10 South Ward is operated with multi-disciplinary teams comprising orthopaedic lecturers and physicians, nurses, therapists and social workers.
Chaloemphrakiat 10 South Ward has continuously improved its organization in cooperation with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in order that it can best support the department and the Faculty of Medicine’s vision and missions. Improvement has been introduced in every step in patient treatment and care from patient reception until discharge, preoperative preparation and postoperative care. More importantly, our care does not limit to the patients but also their family as we have to ensure that the patients and family are ready to go home. May new projects have been initiated in this regards. For example, we have the preoperative preparation project for knee and hip replacement patients to ensure they are ready physically and mentally, which significantly reduces risk of complications. We increase safety level at the ward through proactive risk management. The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Chaloemphrakiat 10 South Ward are the pilot organizations to implement Medication Reconcilitation which was later proven successful and clearly optimized benefits for the patients. The department also introduced the Quality Resident Project to improve efficiency in critical emergency patient care. As a result, residents can quickly help patients, which best satisfied patients and their family.
In upgrading the ward towards excellence, we have implemented the Clinical Practice Guideline of each disease prepared by the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the highest possible efficiency in patient care and treatment. We have introduced Area of Excellence for TKA. We have created various innovations for patient care efficiency improvement. Box Alarm, for example, is a pain management tool that speeds up pain management process, resulting in higher patients’ satisfaction and fast recovery. The Box from Crutches was invented for older patients with bone fracture. In terms of communication, we have constantly communicated within the team and between multi-disciplinary teams and hold internal meetings to brainstorm for ways to improve excellence. These innovations and improvement have brought to the entire ward the pride for being part of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and playing a significant role in treating patients until they recover well and return home and have a better quality of life.
