Improving Situational Awareness to Decrease Emergency ICU Transfers for Hospitalized Pediatric Cardiology Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Failure to recognize and mitigate critical patient deterioration remains a source of serious preventable harm to hospitalized pediatric cardiac patients. Emergency transfers (ETs) occur 10-20 times more often than code events outside the intensive care unit (ICU) and are associated with morbidity and mortality. This quality improvement project aimed to increase days between ETs and code events on an acute care cardiology unit (ACCU) from a baseline median of 17 and 32 days to ≥70 and 90 days within 12 months.

Methods

Institutional leaders, cardiology-trained physicians and nurses, and trainees convened, utilizing the Institution for Healthcare Improvement model to achieve the project aims. Interventions implemented focused on improving situational awareness (SA)

SUBMITTER: Cosgrove TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10538891 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature