Every child, every day, back to play: the PICUstars protocol - implementation of a nurse-led PICU liberation program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As admissions to paediatric intensive care units (PICU) rise and mortality rates decline, the focus is shifting from survival to quality of survivorship. There is paucity of internationally accepted guidelines to manage complications like over-sedation, delirium, and immobility in the paediatric setting. These have a strong adverse impact on PICU recovery including healthcare costs and long-term functional disability. The A2F bundle (ABCDEF), or ICU Liberation, was developed to operationalise the multiple evidence-based guidelines addressing ICU-related complications and has been shown to improve clinical outcomes and health-care related costs in adult studies. However, there is little data on the effect of ICU Liberation bundle implementation in PICU.

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SUBMITTER: Waak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9102243 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature