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The SALVO Newsletter

Study to assess cell-salvage in obstetrics

Amendment 3 is Live!

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Most of you will have received R&D

approval for Substantial Amendment
3. With date of 4th November 2014,
all sites who have not received any
objection from their R&D department
can now implement the amendment
and use the new PIS.

Would you like to be featured

in one of our next monthly
newsletters and introduce
your team to the other
SALVO collaborators?

Get in touch!

We know youre keen to get

your hands on the promised
professionally
printed
information sheets. Our printers
are working hard on customising
your local site PIS and promise
they will be sent out to the first sites this
week! If you need any assistance with localising your
documents to print yourself in the meantime, please get in
touch (d.lanz@qmul.ac.uk), well be happy to help.

Swab Washing
Remember our recommendation to use swab washing in
theatre it will dramatically increase the volume of blood
available in cell salvage. Heres the steps presented by the
Sheffield team at our October meeting:
1. Set up a sterile bowl with 1000ml sterile IV grade 0.9%
saline.
2. Soak blood soiled swabs for a few minutes in the saline to
extract red cells.
3. Gently compress the swabs to express any residual
solution before discarding (dont wring!).
4. At the end of the procedure, aspirate the swab wash
solution into the cell salvage reservoir using the suction line.
5. The swab wash should not be left for more than 6 hours
without processing.

Contact Details
Doris Lanz, Senior Trial Coordinator
Anna Placzek, Admin & Data Assistant
Email: salvo@qmul.ac.uk

Teleconferences
Our monthly site teleconferences are a great way to exchange
ideas and experiences; we are all keen to hear how everyone
is getting on with the new amendment. Do dial in! Next dates
are:

Friday 7th November 10:00 - 11:00

Friday 5th December 10:00 - 11:00

New SOP: Informed Consent/

New training ideas
We have updated and
sent out an updated
SOP
on
Informed
Consent. Re-training
slides that you can use in
your team are available,
as well as updated
SALVO training slides
if you add new staff to
the team which might
be crucial to get those non-elective patients recruited.

Phone: 020 7882 5636

Womens Health Research Unit,
Centre for Primary Care & Public Health
Blizard Institute, Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street, London, E1 2AB

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The SALVO Newsletter

Study to assess cell-salvage in obstetrics

Recruitment Update
As of 31st October, our total recruitment to SALVO was 1646, and the monthly recruitment was 52. Thats 9 up from last month,
well done everyone for your hard work lets keep those numbers rising!

October Recruiter of the Month - The Sunderland team have done it again congratulations! Well done also to the
runners-up Bath, Swansea and Newcastle, who have exceeded their recruitment from the last two months.

Salvo Sites

October
Recruitment

Monthly
Recruitment Rate
(since 1.4.14)

Total
Recruitment
(since 1.4.14)

Sunderland Royal Hospital

6.8

48

Royal United Hospital, Bath

4.8

34

Royal London Hospital

3.8

27

James Cook University Hospital

3.4

24

Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield

3.4

24

Singleton Hospital, Swansea

3.1

22

Simpson Centre, Edinburgh

2.5

18

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

2.4

17

University Hospital of North Staffordshire

2.3

16

St Michaels Hospital, Bristol

2.1

15

Croydon University Hospital

2.0

14

West Middlesex University Hospital

2.0

14

Hinchingbrooke Hospital

1.8

13

Leicester University Hospitals

1.1

Queens Hospital Romford

1.1

Torbay Hospital

1.1

Whipps Cross University Hospital

1.0

Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

0.8

Northwick Park Hospital

0.7

Nottingham University Hospitals

0.6

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

0.4

Birmingham Women's Hospital

0.0

Contact Details
Doris Lanz, Senior Trial Coordinator
Anna Placzek, Admin & Data Assistant
Email: salvo@qmul.ac.uk

Phone: 020 7882 5636

Womens Health Research Unit,
Centre for Primary Care & Public Health
Blizard Institute, Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street, London, E1 2AB