Managing acute kidney injury alerts in primary care event Primary Care and Commissioners Workshop
24th March 2015
Welcome, housekeeping and plan for the day
Annie Taylor Communications consultant to the Think Kidneys Programme
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Housekeeping
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We need your help?
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Programme for the day
10:00 Welcome, housekeeping and plan for the day
10:10 Setting the Scene; The ambition and the ask
10:40 The opportunity for primary care: How to get it wrong for Marjory and right for Nellie
11:15 Q & A Panel Session
11:30 Break
11:45 Preventing, Detecting and Managing Acute Kidney Injury in Primary Care - Minding the Gap; NHS England’s guidance for general practice staff on reporting patient safety incidents; Living well with your kidneys
12:45 Q & A Panel Session
13:00 Lunch
13:40 Group work
14:40 Feedback from group work
15:10 Involving CCGs in managing acute kidney injury
15:40 What will happen next, priorities and summary of the day
16:00 Close
Acute kidney injury The national programme Final Version 24th March 2015 Richard Fluck National Clinical Director for Renal, NHS England
What is acute kidney injury?
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a rapid deterioration of renal function, resulting in inability to maintain fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance. It normally occurs in the context of other serious illness (e.g. sepsis) on a background of risk.
Who is most at risk?
• Two patients are admitted via accident and emergency on a Friday night.
• George, an 86 year old man has crushing chest pain and ECG changes consistent with a large heart attack.
• Julia, a slim 56 year old, with long standing diabetes, has not been feeling right - the GP did a blood test and her serum creatinine is 456 umol/L.
• Who should we most be worried about?
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Why is it important?
Associated with other serious illness “Force multiplier” for poor outcomes Potential to improve care Reduce avoidable harm - death and morbidity Reduce cost Important marker of illness
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”One in five emergency admissions to hospital will have AKI”
"AKI is 100 times more deadly than MRSA infection”
”Around 20 per cent of AKI cases are preventable”
”costs of AKI to the NHS are £434-620m pa”
‘reducing avoidable death, long-term disability and chronic ill
health…’
• VTE prevention: estimate 25,000 deaths pa
Data derived from: Hospital Episode Statistics Annual Report 2010, DoH VTE Prevention Programme 2010 and Selby et al 2012
The purpose of today
To develop the primary care solutions for acute kidney injury that focus on the pathway
• Prevention
• Early detection
• Effective intervention
• Enhanced recovery
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www.england.nhs.uk
The pathway and commissioning levers
Risk assessment
• CQUIN in test in SDH
Improved diagnosis
• Safety alert NHS England
Treatment
• NICE guidance
• Care bundles
Recovery
• Proposed national CQUIN
Secondary care
Primary care
Who
Who is at risk?
Determining the vulnerable population
Pre existing comorbidities
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When
When do people sustain AKI?
How is early diagnosis supported?
60% of AKI arises in the community
A trigger event e.g. infection, sickness, cardiac event
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How
How should AKI be managed? How does that look in primary care?
Prevention
Treatment
Recovery
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What
What do people need to know?
Education for the public
Education for patients and carers
Education for professionals
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Who is at greatest risk?
• For George, his risk of death is 32.2%
• For Julia, her risk of death is 53.1%
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Data adapted from Chawla et al Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2013
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The primary aim of Think Kidneys is to ensure avoidable harm related to acute kidney injury is prevented in all care settings
www.england.nhs.uk
Think Kidneys programme – what it is not about
Bad doctors or nurses
• AKI is a patient safety issue and it is recognised that clinicians need the support of robust systems, education, risk assessment, improved diagnosis and reliable interventions
It is not a failing of the NHS
• This is a global healthcare issue
• The NHS will have the first national system to measure the problem and to improve outcomes for patients
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‘Think Kidneys’ Programme objectives
Develop and implement tools and interventions for prevention, detection, treatment and enhanced recovery
Promote effective management of AKI
Provide evidence-based education and training programmes
Highlight importance of AKI to commissioners, health care professionals and managers
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Hydration Theme
Expert Reference Group
Algorithm Sub-Group
NHS England Patient Safety Steering Group
UK Renal Registry
Risk workstream
Education workstream
Detection workstream
Intervention workstream
Implementation workstream
Measurement workstream
Acute Kidney Injury National Programme Board
Method by which NHS can rapidly alert the healthcare system to patient
safety risks, or to provide guidance on preventing harm
What are NHS patient safety alerts?
Level 3:
Directive: requires specific action(s) within timeframe
Level 2:
Specific resource and information sharing
Level 1:
Warning of emerging risk
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http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/patientsafety/akiprogramme/aki-algorithm/
ACB scientific committee
•Met July 2013 • Biochemists, nephrologists and software providers • Algorithm and minutes available online
Renal Association guidelines committee • Met October 2013 • Nephrologists, biochemists, acute physicians, ICU, patients • Ratified algorithm • Guidelines to be produced
British Association Paediatric Nephrologists • Met Sept 2013 • Paediatric nephrologists, biochemists • Ratified algorithm with one adaptation for paeds
National groups
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Detection Alerting
Terminology ‘e-alerts’
Specific actions:
Work with LIMS provider to integrate NHSE AKI detection algorithm into Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
Ensure test results are sent:
To hospital patient management systems
Into a data message for transmission to a central point (UK Renal Registry)
Educate primary care physicians as to the use of AKI detection
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Measurement can drive improvement
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LIMS level ‘result’ Patient
management system
Alert Response
Local systems
Message Master patient
index
Other data systems
AKI Registry
Regional, National
Research
QI
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The challenge
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Understanding of the kidneys IPSOS Mori poll 2014 general population 51% knew kidneys make urine 8% thought the kidneys pumped blood 12% were aware of role on medicines processing
The challenge
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Understanding of the kidneys (2) Risks to the kidney 68% alcohol 53% dehydration 22% medications 1% smoking
The challenge
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Understanding of the kidneys (3) What is acute kidney injury? 15% had heard of it 16% might of heard of it 69% had never heard of it Physical injury identified as principle reason Only 1 in 5 guessed correct causes
Today: Think about the strategy:
Who is at risk?
When do people sustain AKI?
How should patients with AKI be managed?
What do people need to know?
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Today: which hat?
The ask How should it work for primary care at three levels? • Clinician to patient
• At a commissioning level
• At a system level
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Visit our website at www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk
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Contact Think Kidneys or find out more
Richard Fluck National Clinical Director for Renal NHS England [email protected] Joan Russell Head of Patient Safety NHS England [email protected] Ron Cullen Director UK Renal Registry [email protected]
www.linkedin.com/company/think-kidneys
www.twitter.com/ThinkKidneys
www.facebook.com/thinkkidneys
www.youtube.com/user/thinkkidneys
www.slideshare.net/ThinkKidneys
www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk
Karen Thomas Think Kidneys Programme Manager UK Renal Registry [email protected]
Teresa Wallace Think Kidneys Programme Coordinator UK Renal Registry [email protected]
Julie Slevin Think Kidneys Programme Development Officer UK Renal Registry [email protected]
The opportunity for primary care: How to get it wrong for Marjory and right for Nellie
Kathryn Griffith GP and representative of the Royal College of General Practitioners
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Think Kidneys!! How to get it wrong for Marjory
and right for Nellie!! AKI in primary care
Kathryn E Griffith GP Unity Health York YO10 5DE
RCGP Clinical Champion for Kidney Care [email protected]
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The primary aim of
Think Kidneys is to ensure
avoidable harm related
to acute kidney injury is
prevented in all care settings
Declaration of interests • Dr Griffith is a principal in General Practice in York
• She completed the Bradford University course for PwSI in Cardiology and is now a senior clinical tutor on the course
• She was a member of the KDIGO CKD Guideline Update Group
• She is RCGP Clinical Champion for Kidney Care
• She is a member of the NICE Guideline Group for the update of the CKD and Renal Anaemia Guidelines and follows the NICE rules for conflicts of interest
• She is Chair of the HQIP National Primary Care CKD Audit project board
Who are you please?
Disease
Terminology: Acute Kidney Injury?
Causes of AKI Exposures Susceptibilities
Sepsis Dehydration or volume depletion
Critical illness Advanced age
Circulatory shock Female gender
Burns Black race
Trauma CKD
Cardiac surgery especially bypass Chronic heart, lung or liver disease
Major surgery Diabetes mellitus
Nephrotoxic drugs Cancer
Radiocontrast agents Anaemia
Poisonous plants and animals
The Story of Marjory’s Kidneys What can we do to harm them??
Marjory Aged 83 Group1
• Marjory lives alone and enjoys life
• What can she do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 • Marjory attends the
practice for her Flu Jab
• She hasn’t had her blood pressure taken for a while
• You need it for QOF!!
• It is 170/90
Marjory Aged 83 Group 2
• You see her in the practice vascular clinic
• What can you do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 3
• She has dysuria and frequency and feels very unwell
• What can you and she do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 4
• She has chest pain and is admitted to hospital
• What can the cardiologists do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 5 • She has AMI and
heart failure
• She is taking low dose ramipril and eplerenone
• What can you do to damage her kidneys?
The Story of Marjory’s Kidneys
How to damage Marjory’s Kidneys
Group 1: Age 83 what can she do?
Group 2: BP 170/90 what can you do?
Group 3: Dysuria and frequency ?
Group 4: AMI What can Cardiologist do?
Group 5: Heart Failure ramipril and eplerenone what can you do?
Marjory Aged 83 Group1
• Marjory lives alone and enjoys life
• What can she do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group1 • Get older!!
• Pick and eat wild mushrooms
• Get fat and diabetic
• Eat salt and get hypertension
• Eat liquorice and raise BP
• Take OTC aspirin-paracetamol combination and get analgesic nephropathy
• Take OTC ibuprofen and have 3x risk AKI
• Smoke and have renal arterial disease
• Take too much alcohol and raise her BP
• Develop renal stones with high protein diet or spinach, nuts and rhubarb increasing oxalate levels
• Take large quantities of osmotic laxatives
If you go down to the woods… Cortinarius orellanine Nephrotoxic 1-2 weeks Amanita smithani nephrotoxic 3-6 days
Marjory Aged 83 • Marjory attends the
practice for her Flu Jab
• She hasn’t had her blood pressure taken for a while
• You need it for QOF!!
• It is 170/90
Marjory Aged 83 Group 2
• You see her in the practice vascular clinic
• What can you do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 2
• Ignore her BP
• Not discuss diet and lifestyle
• Not check kidney function
• Not check sugar
• Treat ineffectively
• Treat with large doses of an ACE or ARB and not monitor creatinine
Marjory Aged 83 Group 2 • Confirm BP 24hr
• Check U and E, sugar, ACR and dip stick
• eGFR 45ml/min and ACR 3
• Consider causes of possible CKD/AKI
• Repeat creatinine
• Consider CVD risk factors and diabetes
• Advise lifestyle advice especially salt
• Start CCB as per NICE Hypertension Guideline
Marjory Aged 83 Group 3
• She has dysuria and frequency and feels very unwell
• What can she and you do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 3 • Not drinking risks pre renal damage • Delayed treatment risks pyelonephritis • Risk of glomerular damage with penicillins and
sulphonamides • Risk of tubular damage with aminoglycosides • Risk of post renal damge with crystals in urine with
high dose sulphonamides • Risks of AKI with NSAID used as analgesics • Risk of toxicity with nitrofuratoin eGFR<60
Marjory Aged 83 Group 4
• She has chest pain and is admitted to hospital
• What can the cardiologists do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 4 • On trolley in A and E for 6 hours
• Cardiogenic shock not managed
• X-ray contrast material without checking creatinine
• Cardiac surgery with bypass
• Over diuresis/ under hydration
• ACE/ARB/MRA
• Failure to monitor kidney function with change in medication or clinical status
• Risk of Norwalk or other infections in hospital
• NSAID given for pericardial pain
Contrast induced nephropathy • 25% increase in creatinine Risk factors • Systolic BP <80mmHg • Congestive heart failure • Age >75 • Anaemia • Diabetes • Large contrast volume • Occurs when eGFR <60 worse when <20ml/min • Reason for creatinine on scan forms
Marjory Aged 83 Group 5 • She has AMI and
heart failure
• She is taking low dose ramipril and eplerenone
• What can you do to damage her kidneys?
Marjory Aged 83 Group 5 • Don’t monitor Creatinine with each dose
change
• Don’t measure BP
• Don’t weigh and continue high doses of loop diuretic
• Give her top doses of all drugs
• Use NSAID for diuretic induced gout
• THE BEST WAY TO DAMAGE KIDNEYS
• Don’t tell her that she has CKD
Marjory Aged 83 Group 5 • Monitor Creatinine with each dose change
• Watch BP and weight to avoid hypotension and dehydration
• Stop diuretics when dry
• What is the evidence for top doses age 88?
• Don’t use NSAID
• Risks Aldosterone antagonists eGFR <30
• Make sure she understands CKD
SAD MAN?
SAD MAN: Drugs to be aware of if patient is hypotensive and unwell
• S
• A
• D
• M
• A
• N
SAD MAN • Sulphonylureas
• ACE and ARB
• Diuretics
• Metformin
• Aldosterone antagonists
• NSAID
CKD and NSAID: Nephrotoxic • NSAID impact kidney function in at least 8 ways ( R Fluck)
• Prostaglandins are important to maintain perfusion within the kidney
• Block of prostaglandins reduces renal blood flow with fluid retention, increased creatinine and potassium
• Acute use reversible fall in GFR
• Chronic use linked with hypertension and CKD progression
• RECOMMEND annual U and E and BP with NSAID
• RECOMMEND avoid NSAID with ACE/ARB and diuretic combination
Potential causes of AKI in Margory Exposures Susceptibilities
Sepsis Dehydration or volume depletion
Critical illness Advanced age
Circulatory shock Female gender
Burns Black race
Trauma CKD
Cardiac surgery especially bypass Chronic heart, lung or liver disease
Major surgery Diabetes mellitus
Nephrotoxic drugs Cancer
Radiocontrast agents Anaemia
Poisonous plants and animals
Thank you for looking after me!
Real Primary Care Getting it right for Nellie age 84
• Creatinine 89
• 3 months ago creatinine 88
• eGFR MDRD
• 53 ml/min/1.73m2
• CKD?
Nellie aged 84
• MI aged 76
• Breathless on exertion
• LVSD on Echo
• Heart Failure clinic
• Life saving drugs
• Bisoprolol 5mg
• Ramipril 5mg
• Furosemide 40mg
• Spironolactone 25mg
• Atorvastatin 20mg
• Aspirin 75mg
Nellie aged 84
• BP 108/70
• Creatinine 112
• eGFR 42ml/min/1.73m2
• CKD 3B
• Do you tell her??
• How do you describe this?
Nellie aged 84
• Back from winter break in Egypt 1 week ago
• Both had D and V • Nellie isn’t well • BP 70/50 • Poor urine output • Creatinine 302 • eGFR 13ml/min • Diagnosis? • Why??
Nellie aged 84
AKI= Acute Kidney Injury AKI Stage Serum creatinine Urine output
Stage 1 Increase of more than or equal to
26.5 umol/l or increase of 150-200%
from baseline
Less than 0.5ml/kg/h for
more than 6 hours
Stage 2 Increase of 200-300% from baseline
i.e. 2-3 fold
Less than 0.5ml/kg/h for
more than 12 hours
Stage 3 Increase to more than 300% i.e.3 fold
increase from baseline or more than
354 umol/l
Less than 0.3ml/kg/h for
more than 24 hours. Or
anuria for 12 hours
Causes of AKI Exposures Susceptibilities
Sepsis Dehydration or volume depletion
Critical illness Advanced age
Circulatory shock Female gender
Burns Black race
Trauma CKD
Cardiac surgery especially bypass Chronic heart, lung or liver disease
Major surgery Diabetes mellitus
Nephrotoxic drugs ? Cancer
Radiocontrast agents Anaemia
Poisonous plants and animals Doesn’t know the risks
• Refuses admission as sister just died in hospital
• What do you do?
Nellie aged 84
• Stop ACE and diuretics
• Push fluids + commode!
• Rapid response team
• Repeat bloods in 1 week and monitor symptoms
• 2 weeks later creatinine 170
• eGFR 26
Nellie aged 84
• Is this avoidable?
• Will she get back on all her lifesaving drugs?
• What would have happened over the weekend??
• Next session and group work!!!
Nellie aged 84
Heart Failure Card
RCGP Kidney Care Network • Improving knowledge and management in primary care
• Supporting primary care research in CKD including the National Primary Care CKD Audit
• Developing educational programmes for patients and primary care teams
• Working with British Kidney Patient Association
• Supporting Clinical Champion and Clinical Support Fellow
• UK wide
• [email protected] if you are interested!!
Thank you
Question & Answer Panel Session
Kathryn Griffith GP and representative of the Royal College of General Practitioners Richard Fluck National Clinical Director for Renal NHS England
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11.30-11.45 – Tea/coffee break
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Preventing, Detecting and Managing Acute Kidney Injury in Primary Care – Minding the Gap Tom Blakeman GP
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Preventing, Detecting and Managing Acute Kidney Injury
in Primary Care Minding the Gap
Dr Tom Blakeman
GP & Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care
NIHR CLAHRC for Greater Manchester
Outline:
A Whole Systems Approach
• Patient level:
Make kidney health (AKI) meaningful for patients
• Professional level:
Make AKI meaningful for health professionals
• Systems level:
Establish structures and processes to support
prevention and management of AKI
What is high quality care?
• Accessible
• Clinically effective
• Patient-centred
Campbell, Roland & Buetow,
Social Science & Medicine, 2000
• Safe
• Efficient
• Equitable
US Institute of Medicine
Achieving High Quality Care:
AKI - a driver of Quality across the NHS?
‘If we can get it right for AKI, we will get basic care right
across the NHS.’
Minding the Gap:
AKI Quality Framework for Primary Care Examples Patient
Level
Professional Level Systems Level
Preventing AKI
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Detecting & Managing
AKI
?
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Post AKI care
?
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AKI: A Driver of Quality across the NHS?
Doing the basics well in primary care:
• Preventing AKI:
Review appointments
• Detecting & Managing AKI:
Managing acute illness
• Post AKI care:
Post discharge care
Learning from Case Studies:
http://www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk
Case Study:
Addressing AKI in the community AB 68 year old man: Type 2 Diabetes, COPD & stage 3 CKD without proteinuria
Multiple medicines including repeat scripts for an ACE Inhibitor and Ibuprofen (NSAID)
Case Study:
Addressing AKI in the community AB 68 year old man: Type 2 Diabetes, COPD & stage 3 CKD without proteinuria
Multiple medicines including repeat scripts for an ACE Inhibitor and Ibuprofen (NSAID)
Experiences an episode of gastroenteritis
Without GP assessment, leads to an unplanned hospital admission
Episode of illness complicated by AKI requiring a period of intensive care
Case Study:
Addressing AKI in the community AB 68 year old man: Type 2 Diabetes, COPD & stage 3 CKD without proteinuria
Multiple medicines including repeat scripts for an ACE Inhibitor and Ibuprofen (NSAID)
Experiences an episode of gastroenteritis
Without GP assessment leads to an unplanned hospital admission
Episode of illness complicated by AKI requiring a period of intensive care
Hospital Discharge summary included AKI and coded in GP records
Recommendation ACE Inhibitor to be stopped but no mention of NSAIDS
Neither was discontinued by the primary care team
Kidney function not rechecked post-discharge
Case Study:
Addressing AKI in the community AB 68 year old man: Type 2 Diabetes, COPD & stage 3 CKD without proteinuria
Multiple medicines including repeat scripts for an ACE Inhibitor and Ibuprofen (NSAID)
Experiences an episode of gastroenteritis
Without GP assessment leads to an unplanned hospital admission
Episode of illness complicated by AKI requiring a period of intensive care
Hospital Discharge summary included AKI and coded in GP records
Recommendation ACE Inhibitor to be stopped but no mention of NSAIDS
Neither was discontinued by the primary care team
Kidney function not rechecked post-discharge
Further GP appointments and treated for exacerbations of COPD
No temporary cessation of medicines during these episodes of acute illness
Case Study:
Addressing AKI in the community AB 68 year old man: Type 2 Diabetes, COPD & stage 3 CKD without proteinuria
Multiple medicines including repeat scripts for an ACE Inhibitor and Ibuprofen (NSAID)
Experiences an episode of gastroenteritis
Without GP assessment leads to an unplanned hospital admission
Episode of illness complicated by AKI requiring a period of intensive care
Hospital Discharge summary included AKI and coded in GP records
Recommendation ACE Inhibitor to be stopped but no mention of NSAIDS
Neither was discontinued by the primary care team
Kidney function not rechecked post-discharge
Further GP appointments and treated for exacerbations of COPD
No temporary cessation of medicines during these episodes of acute illness
Case discussion at weekly clinical meeting with Community Support Pharmacist
AKI: A Driver of Quality across the NHS?
Doing the basics well in primary care:
• Preventing AKI:
Review appointments
• Detecting & Managing AKI:
Managing acute illness
• Post AKI care:
Post discharge care
Doing the basics well:
Preventing AKI in Primary care • Identify high risk groups
Consider ‘sick day rules’ for high risk patient groups
Ensure flu vaccination for high risk patient groups
• Avoid prescription of long term NSAIDs where possible
particularly in high risk patients including those with CKD
Avoid ‘triple whammy’ prescribing
• Consider monitor renal function one week after the introduction of medication –
with clear advice
ACEI/ARB; Spironolactone, Loop Diuretics (CKD)
Minding the Gap:
Preventing AKI in Primary care Key factors to consider:
• Patient level
Develop ‘Sick day rules’ that are meaningful for patients
Recognise the key role of carers
• Professional level
How to discuss risk of AKI (Kidney Health) in routine practice
Recognise the key role of practice nurses
• Systems level
Ensure use of Read codes from April 2015 – ‘8OAG’
Clarify roles & responsibilities e.g. pharmacists and GPs
Resource Implementation e.g. dossette boxes & the delivery man!
Acute Kidney Injury:
NICE Guidance
‘Discuss the risk of developing acute kidney injury…with people who
are at risk of acute kidney injury, particularly those who have:
• History of AKI (QS1)
• chronic kidney disease with an eGFR less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m2
• neurological or cognitive impairment or disability, which may mean
limited access to fluids because of reliance on a carer.
Involve parents and carers in the discussion if appropriate.’
NICE clinical guideline 169
guidance.nice.org.uk/cg169
Think Kidneys:
A need for patient-centred interventions
Minding the Gap:
Headline findings People don’t have a comprehensive understanding of
what their kidneys do,
how to keep them healthy
what acute kidney injury is
• Only 51% of the population know that kidneys make urine
• Only 12% of participants thought that the kidneys had a role to play in processing medicines
Why bother talking about
kidney health with the elderly?
A Gap in care for patients with CKD:
Reticence to discuss kidney health with older
people & patients with stage 3A
‘... if you’ve got CKD or you’re young and you’ve
got proteinuria, definitely that is a really important
thing to hammer in. But yeah, 80/90 year olds, I
wouldn’t suggest we’re probably discussing it, if
they’ve got a mild CKD3.’ (GP06)
Framing CKD discussions:
‘Nothing to worry about’
‘...But just to let them know, I feel that
they should know that they’re on a
(CKD) register and tell them not to
worry. If there’s anything to worry about
we’ll let them know.’ (nurse 11)
Making kidney health meaningful:
An opportunity to broaden & tailor conversations?
Kidneys in the context of
Supporting Vascular Health
Kidneys in the context of
Managing acute illness
Addressing ‘vulnerability’
‘Having a CKD 3 register is not
necessarily there for the progressive
disease or even vascular disease,
it's looking at vulnerability. These
patients should have a card. It
should say “…Do not give me
gentamicin in casualty. Do not
allow me to get dehydrated…’
(GP05)
AKI: A Driver of Quality across the NHS?
Doing the basics well in primary care:
• Preventing AKI:
Review appointments
• Detecting & Managing AKI:
Managing acute illness
• Post AKI care:
Post discharge care
Minding the Gap:
Detecting AKI in Primary care Key factors to consider:
Need guidance on when to consider checking kidney function:
Taking bloods needs to support management – both in terms of detection and
severity
A traffic light system to support decision making?
Need timely results – the van man!
Need coordination with Out of Hours – Clinical Context is key
System change needs resourcing - Cumulative workload
Doing the basics well:
Assessment of acute illness
• Better assessment of acute
illness? E.g:
Postural vital signs
Dry Axillae
• Better documentation?
Doing the basics well:
Assessment of acute illness
• Better assessment of acute
illness?
• Better documentation?
Detection:
AKI Risk Warning system
• Switched on in hospitals
9th March 2015
• Switch on in Primary Care by
Spring 2016
How to manage a patient with AKI
detected in primary care
Factors to consider:
• Is this definitely AKI?
• Is the patient acutely unwell?
• How severe is the AKI?
• What is the cause of AKI?
Need guidance:
Primary care management of patient with AKI
Avoid or correct ‘dehydration’
Consider temporary cessation of medicines
If no obvious cause, consider new drugs as cause of AKI
Early review and repeat renal function
Consider seek help from nephrology on call
AKI: A Driver of Quality across the NHS?
Doing the basics well in primary care:
• Preventing AKI:
Review appointments
• Detecting & Managing AKI:
Managing acute illness
• Post AKI care:
Post discharge care
Post AKI care:
Driving quality – A National CQUIN for AKI The percentage of patients with AKI treated in an acute
hospital whose discharge summary includes each of
four key items:
1. Stage of AKI
2. Evidence of medicines review having been
undertaken
3. Type of blood tests required on discharge
4. Frequency of blood tests required on discharge for
monitoring
Discussing AKI & Kidney Health in
secondary & primary care
Doing the basics well:
Post AKI care • Review medications
Consider restart medications that have been stopped
check kidney function 1/52 after reintroduction
Update records if drug implicated in causing AKI (e.g. PPI & interstitial nephritis)
• Assess the degree of renal recovery
Consider repeat renal function in patients who have not returned to baseline
If evidence of new onset CKD, then recheck proteinuria and Creatinine at 3 months
Consider contact nephrology for advice
• Reduce risk of further episodes of AKI
Communication of risk and use of sick day rules – Code their use = ‘8OAG’
• Coding the occurrence of an AKI episodes
Read codes exist for AKI 1, AKI 2, AKI 3
Case Study:
Addressing AKI in the community AB 68 year old man: Type 2 Diabetes, COPD & stage 3 CKD without proteinuria
Multiple medicines including repeat scripts for an ACE Inhibitor and Ibuprofen (NSAID)
Experiences an episode of gastroenteritis
Without GP assessment leads to an unplanned hospital admission
Episode of illness complicated by AKI requiring a period of intensive care
Hospital Discharge summary included AKI and coded in GP records
Recommendation ACE Inhibitor to be stopped but no mention of NSAIDS
Neither was discontinued by the primary care team
Kidney function not rechecked post-discharge
Further GP appointments and treated for exacerbations of COPD
No temporary cessation of medicines during these episodes of acute illness
Case discussion at weekly clinical meeting with Community Support Pharmacist
Learning from Case Studies:
Addressing AKI in the community Key learning points and actions:
• Coding of AKI in GP records (even when not the primary diagnosis)
• Establishing a register and e-alerts for patients who have experienced AKI
• Mechanisms to ensure GP review:
Medication review
Check renal function
Social and carer support
Action plan
Support recovery
• Resource System Change
Doing the basics well:
AKI Register & e-alert
Doing the basics well:
AKI Register & e-alert
Doing the basics well
AKI Registers & e-alerts
Doing the basics well:
Resourcing implementation of AKI initiatives Summary of Key Factors to consider:
• Preventing AKI
Takes time to communicate risk
Ensure coordination in roles between GPs and Pharmacy
Dealing with dossette boxes – The Delivery Man!
• Detecting & managing AKI
Checking renal function in primary care: Timely - The Van Man!
Coordination with Out Of Hours care
Nursing Home Care
Timely access with the on call Nephrology team
• Post AKI Care
Salient discharge summaries & establishing AKI Registers in Primary Care
Role of medicine management Pharmacists
Integrating AKI into incentives e.g. Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service
Minding the Gap:
AKI Quality Framework for Primary Care Examples Patient
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Detecting & Managing
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Post AKI care
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Minding the Gap:
AKI Quality Framework for Primary Care Examples Patient
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Achieving High Quality Care:
AKI = a driver of Quality across the NHS?
‘If we can get it right for AKI, we will get basic care right
across the NHS.’
NHS England’s guidance for general practice staff on reporting patient safety incidents Joan Russell Head of Patient Safety NHS England
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GP e-form for reporting patient safety
incidents to NRLS • Launched 26 February - quick and easy for practice staff to report to NRLS
• 360m patient consultations with GPs each year but very small number of reports to NRLS (compared to 1.5m a year from trusts)
• Can report anonymously; and can choose to share with local CCG to support local learning
• Following a report a CPD / Serious Event Analysis (SEA) template for appraisal and revalidation is emailed to the reporter (can also be used as evidence for CQC inspections)
www.england.nhs.uk
How we use your patient safety
incident reports to drive learning
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Looking after the kidneys
The patient view Primary care AKI meeting
24 March 2015 Fiona Loud, Policy Director British Kidney Patient Association
Framing the message
• Low (no) awareness of kidney health or what the kidney does
• Message can be lost in the bigger picture of cardiovascular health, diabetes etc
Health talk
• Attitudes to monitoring kidney health
– Bill’s thoughts
– Bernard’s thoughts
• ‘Mild kidney impairment’
• Healthtalk.org
• Newly released CKD resource
Dialogue with patients
• Why this is important?
• What does it mean for you?
• What can we do about it?
Common questions – why this is important
• What are the kidneys and what do they do?
• Why do I need to know about this?
What does it mean for me?
• Can my kidneys get better?
• How serious is this - will it mean I have to go on dialysis?
Patient-developed description of CKD
“My kidneys are not working as well as they should, and so are not filtering out as much waste from my blood. This results in changes to the way my body works and my general feeling of well being. This is called chronic kidney disease and is a gradual process where kidneys may continue to deteriorate over months or years. I have to watch my diet and blood pressure from now on.”
What can we do about it?
• Are there tests?
• What will the results of the tests mean to me?
• Why I have I been given these tablets? – Side effects, warnings in medication leaflets
• Who else can help me – nurse, pharmacist etc
• What next?
What I can do • Simple tips
• Watch the wee
• Drinking enough – of the right stuff (i.e. not alcohol)
• Medicine/tablets
• Ask for advice especially if sick
• Blood pressure/blood sugar/smoking/diet if appropriate
What you can do
• Open the dialogue
• Signpost
• Educate
• Feed back on blood tests
• Reiterate to check understanding
• Avoiding language barriers
Lay description of AKI My kidneys have suddenly stopped working properly; this can happen if someone is being treated as an emergency, has a big problem like pneumonia or some types of cancer. While this is being concentrated on my kidneys are really struggling because of e.g. dehydration, or medicines which need adjustment. So it’s like a heart attack, but on the kidneys, and is every bit as damaging…
After AKI
• Risk of another episode
• Residual damage
• What to tell the pharmacist/other health professionals in future
• Bring the partner/family/care home into the discussion as appropriate
Kidney Management – how much clinician time in one year?
Reality of self-care in long term conditions
Another 727 hours/month and 8030 hours/year to self-care
The Person with the condition
retains: • Choices
• Control
• Consequences
– But still needs empathy
– AKI is a big shock
Signposting • Kidney charity sites • Counselling • Patient information (mainly in development)
• www.Thinkkidneys.nhs.uk • NHS Choices • www.Britishkidney-pa.co.uk
– Advocacy, grants, counselling, service improvement, information
12.45 – 13.00 Question & Answer Panel Session
Kathryn Griffith, GP and representative of the Royal College of General Practitioners Richard Fluck, National Clinical Director for Renal, NHS England Tom Blakeman, GP Joan Russell, Head of Patient Safety, NHS England Fiona Loud, Policy Director, BKPA
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13.00-13.40 – Lunch break
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The purpose of today
To develop the primary care solutions for acute kidney injury that focus on the pathway
• Prevention
• Early detection
• Effective intervention
• Enhanced recovery
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13.40-14.40 Group work
Group 2 – Primary Care Group 3 – Primary Care Group 4 – Commissioners Group 5 – Commissioners Group 6 - Commissioners Group 7 – Improvement organisations Group 8 – Improvement organisations
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Group work instructions
On your name badge you will have a group number for this task –
find that table with your group number on it.
Once in your group you will find a series of questions for your group
and a pre-printed template that will need to be completed.
A facilitator will be in your group to assist with the timing of this task
You will be required to provide a summary of your discussions in a
feedback session lasting no more than 3 mins
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Groups 2 & 3 – Primary Care
What are we going to do to ensure AKI is properly managed across the
patient pathway in both primary and secondary care, considering the
following :-
Out of hours
Detection of AKI
Patients at risk
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What support do we need from the acute sector? How can secondary care help primary care manage AKI more effectively ie - Minding the Gap? – Things to consider :-
Discharge
Admission advice
General AKI advice
Guidelines
What support do we need from the national programme? What should we ask of them? i.e. education/awareness raising
What should they ask of us?
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What are we going to do to ensure AKI is properly managed across the patient pathway in both primary and secondary care, considering the following – out of hours, detection of AKI, patients at risk
What support do we need from the acute sector? – How can secondary care help primary care manage AKI more effectively ie minding the gap?
What should the national programme ask of us?
What support do we need from the national programme? – What should we ask of them? ie education/awareness raising
PRIMARY CARE – GROUP:
Group 4, 5 & 6 - Commissioners
What are we going to do to ensure AKI is properly managed in primary care? Things to consider :-
What are your plans for monitoring prevalence of AKI?
What are the challenges?
What are your plans for reviewing management of AKI and performance in your CCG area
To help overcome the challenges we have a plan to develop national commissioning guidance. What would you want to be included in the commissioning guidance for AKI in primary care?
What support do we need from the acute sector?
What support do we need from the national programme? What should we ask of them?
What should they ask of us?
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What are we going to do to ensure AKI is properly managed in primary care? What are your plans for reviewing management of AKI and performance in your CCG area?
What are your plans for monitoring prevalence of AKI? What are the challenges?
To help overcome the challenges we have a plan to develop national commissioning guidance. What would you want to be included in the commissioning guidance for AKI in primary care?
What should the national programme ask of us?
What support do we need from the national programme? – What should we ask of them? ie education/awareness raising
COMMISSIONERS – GROUP:
What support do we need from the acute sector?
Groups 7 & 8 – Improvement organisations
What can we do to support the implementation
of Think Kidneys ?
What support do we need from the national
programme? – What should we ask of them?
What should they ask of us?
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What can we do to support the implementation of Think Kidneys?
What should the national programme ask of us?
What support do we need from the national programme? – What should we ask of them?
IMPROVEMENT ORGANISATIONS - GROUP:
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Am I in the right group?
Group 2 Tom Blakeman Sandhya Dhingra Medhat Guindy Berenice Lopez Fiona Loud Rajib Pal Carol Picken Daniel Vernon Stuart Wright
Group 3 Ama Basoah Linda Bisset John Corlett Kathryn Griffith Anjana Hari Dan Lasserson Victoria Lloyd Pauline Miller
Group 4 Khalada Abdullah Sally Bassett Emma Evans Naveed Ghaffar Sarah Harding Sheila McCorkindale Rumit Shah Nigel Taylor Charlie Tomson
Group 5 Carmel Ashby Lindsey Britten Samantha Glynn-Atkins Joanne Gutteridge Nesta Hawker Mike Jones Sue Renwick Gang Xu
Group 6 Emma Alcock Ramaswamy Diwaker Linda Hunter Abid Mumtaz Deborah Oliver Joan Russell Janet Wilson
Group 7 Lorraine Burey Martin Cassidy Rebecca Elvey Richard Fluck Simon Fraser Richard Healicon Sara Owen Pauline Smith
Group 8 Hester Benson Ron Cullen Fiona Cummings Katy Gordon Susan Howard Aly Hulme Tracie Keats Neil Sandys
Involving CCGs in managing acute kidney injury
Nesta Hawker Regional Programme of Care Manager Internal Medicine (North) NHS England - Regional Team
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www.england.nhs.uk
• Part of the national Think Kidney programme
• Commissioning – part of House of Care
• CCGs commission majority of pathway of AKI
Implementation Work Stream
www.england.nhs.uk
• Aim to test out commissioning levers e.g. CQUINS
• Access to advice and input from national experts to develop the commissioning levers
• Southern Derby CCG testing commissioning levers in primary and secondary care
• To develop a commissioner toolkit for the Think Kidney website
• Lessons learnt
• Examples of commissioning levers along the pathway
Implementation Work Stream
An example from Southern Derbyshire
Carmel Ashby Assistant Head of Clinical Quality & Patient Safety – Primary Care Southern Derbyshire CCG
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NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Southern Derbyshire CCG
AKI Primary Care Event
Carmel Ashby
Assistant Head of Clinical Quality &
Patient Safety – Primary Care
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Why we got involved • Strong drive to improve services especially
patient safety
• NCEPOD report ‘Adding Insult to Injury’
• Individual commitment
• CCG Board sign up: Patient Story: Board briefings
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Structure • Steering group established: strong multi agency
team
• Governance through CCG Quality Assurance Committee and Contract Monitoring Group
• CQUIN developed during January 2014:
2 part secondary care assessment on admission and discharge information
High priority given = £1 million
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Progress • Secondary care CQUIN year one almost complete.
Year 2 CQUIN agreed (to continue improvements and complement national mandated indicator)
• Primary care planning: Locally Commissioned Service Framework (LCSF)
• Baseline survey undertaken by clinical staff – 467 GPs and Practice Nurses responded
• Number of respondents • Key messages
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Progress (cont) Programme of education & awareness raising sessions Strategic Clinical Network funding (AKI/CKD) Quality Forum – PC/SC input Academic detailing – working Promoting to practices, to include all staff, GPs,
PNs/APNs, practice managers etc. delivered in range of settings
Evaluation framework – building on GP survey
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Progress (cont)
Policies, Procedures & Guidelines on AKI guidelines to support care planning on discharge
Shared Care Pathology website
Sick day rules
• Information
Read codes approved
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Lessons Learnt
Senior Leadership
Ambition and Innovation to improve
patient care
Bringing together a strong team who
were committed to a shared vision
Moving at pace using contractual levers
NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Contact Details
Lynn Woods - [email protected]
Sally Bassett - [email protected]
Nick Selby - [email protected]
Nitin Kolhe - [email protected]
An example from NHS South Sefton CCG
Nigel Taylor GP/Clinical Lead NHS South Sefton CCG
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http://www.cmscnsenate.nhs.uk
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE
THE CHESHIRE AND MERSEYSIDE EXPERIENCE
Dr Nigel Taylor GP, Clinical Lead South Sefton CCG
Birmingham 24th March 2015
Cheshire and Merseyside
Strategic Clinical Networks &
Senate
http://www.cmscnsenate.nhs.uk
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • Declarations of interest.
• Employers:- South Sefton CCG and Liverpool Community Health.
• Memberships:- Diabetes UK and the Primary Care Diabetes Society
for a number of years.
• I have chaired meetings for a number of companies which have
included:-BMS; Schering; Pfizer; MSD; Sanofi; AstraZeneca; Lilly and
Boehringer SB Communications. I have received travel awards from
Sanofi and Takeda and attended Pioneers in Diabetes meetings as a
delegate
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • Rationale
• Action Taken
• Future Plans
• Barriers NHS | Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 184
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE
• RATIONALE
• Problem Identified
• AKI-Common in Hospital
• Bad Outcomes
• Suggested look at beyond confines of hospital
• More in Primary Care but milder forms
• Possibly amenable to minimal interventions NHS | Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 185
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • AKI Alerts
• Local Foundation Trust system generated a total of 6198 alerts - approx 1030 per month.
• 546 were from GPs - approx 90 per month. 64 - AKI 3 alerts - rest were AKI1 and 2
• 1029 alerts from AED
• 3514 alerts from Inpatients
• 765 alerts from Outpatients NHS | Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 186
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • Total Number of AKI Alerts in Primary Care for University Hospital Aintree Catchment for
six months 1/8/14 to 31/1/15 = 546 (AKI 1 & AKI 3)
• Further 1029 Alerts from A&E.
• South Sefton CCG-Population approx 155,000
• 33 GP Practices
• AKI 1- CCG Total for six months 287 (Range 1 to 27) i.e. 48 for one month.
• AKI 3- CCG Total for six months 35 (Range 1 to 5)i.e. 6 in one month.
• AKI 1,2 & 3= 0.4 per 1000 per month. NHS | Presentation toNational AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 187
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AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • ACTIONS: GP-what to do if alert-assessment & prevention.
• Discharge letter for those with AKI on their diagnosis.
• Patient & Carer Information
• Education-Primary Care
• Royal Liverpool Hospital-Pilot with GP Practices on AKI Alerts-Only
sending alerts to individual practice-identifying how many are serious &
how many need to come into hospital.
• Plan to Link Alert to Guidance Documents NHS | Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 190
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • Future Plans:-
• More Education for Nursing and Care Homes & Carers
• Community Pharmacists
• Drug Holiday Information
• Direct Link for health care professionals on results
• http://www.cmscnsenate.nhs.uk/strategic-clinical-network/our-
networks/cardiovascular/within-network/kidney/kidney-network-group/
• AQuA -Secondary Care-CCG Standards-Primary Care? NHS | Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 191
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • BARRIERS:-
• Phlebotomy Services
• GP feeling of ensuing Tidal Wave and being swamped.
• Siloed working-Primary Care; Secondary Care Community & Voluntary Sector.
• Overall Population Unawareness (74% no knowledge of kidney disease-recent
Kidney Research UK commissioned UKGov poll of 2000 people)..
• Common & deadly-need to look for diagnosis-it is not going to overwhelm the
system but need to treat. It is possible to get good outcomes
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If this works for Secondary Care then we can make it work for Primary
Care. 193
| Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 194
AKI ALERTS IN PRIMARY CARE • Acknowledgements:-
• Dr Abraham, Clinical Lead Cheshire & Mersey Renal Network;
• Members to the Cheshire and Merseyside Renal Network;
• Dr Peter Chamberlain GP Quality and Strategy Lead South Sefton CCG:
• Dr Chandrasekar, Consultant Nephrologist, University Hospital Aintree. NHS | Presentation to National AKI Meeting 24th March 2015 195
What will happen next, priorities and summary of the day
Richard Fluck National Clinical Director for Renal, NHS England Tom Blakeman GP Dan Lasserson GP
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The clever (academic) approach
Build a blender with rubber
blades.
Install a kitten detector
The simple (implementation)
approach
Don’t stick a kitten in a blender
Don’t press the start button if you
see a kitten in the blender
What you might need
A chart to help you tell the
difference between a kitten and
food
Education
16.00 – Close and thanks for attending
Safe journey home
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