Death audit for the first time in AIIMS Bhopal

Due to the death of the patient due to medical error, for the first time a death audit was conducted at the Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhopal on the lines of the guidelines of Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Its objective is to reduce institutional deaths to zero and to make efforts to save the life of the patient. The review revealed that since January till now, 704 people have died in AIIMS Bhopal. It was revealed that when the patient was admitted, several tests were done. He died after monitoring on the second and third day. In such a situation, there was discussion on reducing the delay in starting screening and clinical treatment in OPD.

Now these issues will be given serious attention. In the death audit report of AIIMS Bhopal, deaths of 67.8 percent men and 32.2 percent women were studied. Now AIIMS doctors will follow standard protocol with heart attack patients. We will be extremely careful while filling the cause of death form. Code Blue facility should be utilized in a better way. Blue facility means those people wearing blue dress who are available for operations and other types of clinical assistance.

The main causes of most of the deaths were multi-organ failure, advanced carcinoma, road accident, suicide, bringing dead person, brain injury in an accident, rotting of wound and other such reasons were discovered due to which the patients died.

Death audit conducted for the first time. This initiative is quite commendable. Doctors and our staff are always ahead for such innovative experiments. – Professor Dr. Ajay Singh, Director, AIIMS