Dr. Chang-Lun Huang
Director
of General Thoracic Surgery Department, CCH
Dr. Chang-Lun Huang
Director of General Thoracic Surgery Department, CCHSpeaker's Biography
Chang-Lun Huang, M.D., is a general thoracic surgeon who is passionate about minimally invavsive surgery for lung cancer and esophageal cancer. He also put lots of efforts working with health information technicians to develop evidence-based clinical decision support system integrated in modern hospital information system.
Dr. Huang graduated from School of Medicine, Chung-Shan medical university and completed his surgical residency in Hsin-Chu Hospital, Department of Health, the Executive Yuan and Changhua Christian Hospital. After two-year service as attending surgeon in Department of Surgery, Kinmen Hospital, Department of Health, the Executive Yuan, he joined Changhua Christian Medical Fundation Changhua Christain Hospital and started his career as a general throacic surgeon . His research interest includes minimally invasive surgery, thoracic trauma and the integration of hospital information and clinical decision support systems.
Topic
Abstract
In order to enhance the surgical safety of patients using antithrombotic drugs, the hospital has formed a cross-departmental project team, including surgeons, pharmacists, operating room members, health information technicians and quality center specialists, to develop our preoperative antithrombotic drug discontinuation/resumption decision-making system. The system also uses cloud-based medication data to assist surgeons in correctly deciding whether the patient need to discontinued taken antithrombotic drugs or not. In addition, the intelligent decision-making system automatically preliminarily evaluates the bleeding risk and embolism risk according to the surgical method and the patient's past history, and the system automatically recommends the start date of discontinuation of antithrombotic drugs. Physicians can still adjust the drug withdrawal time according to the type of surgery and the patient's condition. After surgery, the computerized physician order entry system will remind the physician to resume the prescription of anti-thrombotic drugs for patients who had discontinued before the surgery. The pharmacist will tracking the patients if the medication resumed as expected to avoid events of thromboembolism due to discontinuation too long, which will affect the patient's future life. It is our scope that by introducing the intelligent decision-making system, the safety of patients' surgery and medication can be improved.