Utilizing a Collaborative Learning Model to Promote Early Extubation Following Infant Heart Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether a collaborative learning strategy-derived clinical practice guideline can reduce the duration of endotracheal intubation following infant heart surgery.

Design

Prospective and retrospective data collected from the Pediatric Heart Network in the 12 months pre- and post-clinical practice guideline implementation at the four sites participating in the collaborative (active sites) compared with data from five Pediatric Heart Network centers not participating in collaborative learning (control sites).

Setting

Ten children's hospitals.

Patients

Data were collected for infants following two-index operations: 1) repair of isolated coarctation of the aorta (birth to 365 d) and 2) repair of tetralogy of Fallot (29-365 d). There were 240 sub

SUBMITTER: Mahle WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5053873 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature