Assessing the efficacy of difficult airway alerts in electronic medical records: a quality improvement study.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Retrospective analysis of difficult airway alerts in a major tertiary centre.

Objective

To investigate the completeness, utility and efficacy of difficult airway alerts and their impact on future airway management episodes.

Design, data sources and methods

Patients who had a "difficult airway" entry on electronic medical records (EMR) from 2011 to 2021 were included. Each alert was analyzed by a team of anesthetists with expertise in difficult airway management for its quality, appropriateness, and impact on future airway management episodes. Alert quality was defined as to whether the content of the alert contained pertinent information for emergent airway management. Alert appropriateness was defined as to whether the experts would be unhappy to perform

SUBMITTER: Lee WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11515682 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature