Preventing Cardiac Arrest in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Through Multicenter Collaboration.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Preventing in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) likely represents an effective strategy to improve outcomes for critically ill patients, but feasibility of IHCA prevention remains unclear.

Objective

To determine whether a low-technology cardiac arrest prevention (CAP) practice bundle decreases IHCA rate.

Design, setting, and participants

Pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) teams from the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) formed a collaborative learning network to implement the CAP bundle consistent with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement framework; 15 hospitals implemented the bundle voluntarily. Risk-adjusted IHCA incidence rates were analyzed across 2 time periods, 12 months (baseline) and 18 months after CAP implementation (int

SUBMITTER: Alten J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9257678 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature