Airway emergency management in a pediatric hospital before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Children's hospitals frequently care for infants with various life-threatening airway anomalies. Management of these infants can be challenging given unique airway anatomy and potential malformations. Airway emergency management must be immediate and precise, often demanding specialized equipment and/or expertise. We developed a Neonatal-Infant Emergency Airway Program to improve medical responses, communication, equipment usage and outcomes for all infants requiring emergent airway interventions in our neonatal and infant intensive care unit (NICU).

Patients and methods

All patients admitted to our quaternary NICU from 2008 to 2019 were included in this study. Our program consisted of a multidisciplinary airway response team, pager system, and emergency equipment

SUBMITTER: Thom CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7568466 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature