Research Documenting Improved Surgical Outcomes Using Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster
A hospital can save $1 million a year if just 450 surgical patients used Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster (PFS) and left the hospital 1.3 days sooner. The cost-savings from shorter lengths of stays of 1.3 days and 1.6 days are documented by the research studies summarized below.
By having several nurses or social workers from your hospital take Peggy Huddleston's 2-Day Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster Training, they will learn how to give group workshops to your patients one to two weeks before surgery. Use PFS with one or two patient populations to see the shorter lengths of stay, cost-savings and increase in patient satisfaction at your hospital.
Consider using it with patients having knee-joint replacement, hip joint replacement, spinal surgery, planned C-sections, colorectal surgery and/or mitral valve repair.
The Training can be taken in person with Peggy Huddleston in Lexington, MA or at a distance by using a phone bridge and computer. Nurses and social workers get 13.5 CEUs. Training is Saturday, 10-5pm and Sunday, 9-5pm. It is $445 per person. For more information, call (800) 726-4173.
As patients use Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, you will see improved surgical outcomes. Patients will have significantly less anxiety before surgery, use 23-50% less pain medication, have a shorter length of stay and an increase in patient satisfaction.
Listening to the interview on the home page will give you an excellent overview of Peggy Huddleston's Five Steps to Prepare for Surgery and how they will benefit your patients and hospital staff.
Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster Workshops are offered at hospitals including:
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School teaching hospital
- NYU Medical Center in New York
- Hartford Hospital in Connecticut
- Greenwich Hospital's Dept. of Integrative Medicine in Connecticut
- Stamford Hospital's Center for Integrative Medicine & Wellness in Connecticut
- Carolinas Medical Center in North Carolina
- Mid Coast Hospital in Maine
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center in California
At the Lahey Clinic, a Tufts University Medical School teaching hospital, a randomized controlled study by Merrie Watters, RN, MSN, David Schoetz, MD, FACS, past Chief of Colorectal Surgery and Judith Feldman, MD, Senior Internist, Dept. of General Medicine, with 56 patients having colorectal surgery showed that patients using Peggy Huddleston's book, Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, Relaxation tape and a one-hour workshop had significantly less anxiety before surgery, were discharged from the hospital 1.6 days sooner than those in the control group, resulting in a cost-savings of $3,200 per patient. By the second day at home after discharge, patients using Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster used 60% less pain medication, had significantly less irritability, insomnia, nightmares, loss of appetite and had a significant increase in patient satisfaction compared to the control group.
A randomized controlled study with 44 patients having total knee-joint replacement at the New England Baptist Hospital, a Tufts University Medical School teaching hospital, documented that patients using the book, Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, the Relaxation tape and one-hour workshop had significantly less anxiety before surgery and were discharged from the hospital 1.3 days sooner than the control group. Benjamin E. Bierbaum, MD, former Chief of Orthopedic Surgery was a principal investigator.
At the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School teaching Hospital, a study with 23 hospitalized patients not having surgery documented that patients using Peggy Huddleston's Relaxation tape twice a day for 20-minutes for two days had a reduction in anxiety, used less medication for anxiety and a significant improvement in heart rate variability. Russell S. Phillips, MD, Chief of Medicine was a co-investigator. The findings were published in Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, March 2007.
A meta-analysis of 191 studies with 8,600 patients showed that patients who prepared for surgery had less blood loss, used less pain medication, fewer complications and a shorter length of stay. For patients facing chemotherapy, you also learn how they can lessen side effects.
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Research study of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster at Lahey Clinic with colorectal surgery
Research study of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster at New England Baptist Hospital with knee joint replacement
Pilot study of Peggy Huddleston's Relaxation tape with hospitalized medical patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
OR Manager (print version)
American Holistic Medical Association
Association of Women Surgeons (print version)
Anesthesiologist, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center
NY University School of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine