Improving Delirium Assessments in Vanderbilt Pediatric and Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Units.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Delirium is a disturbance of attention and awareness that represents a change from baseline mental status. Accurate diagnosis of delirium is of paramount importance to improving the management of pediatric delirium in the intensive care unit. Despite ongoing education, inconsistencies in delirium assessments occur. Here, we aimed to determine the extent of the problem and increase compliance with delirium assessments.

Methods

We collected preintervention data to assess baseline compliance of delirium assessments in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) at Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in November 2020. We executed 2 Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles with different interventions and collected data a

SUBMITTER: Eken HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9278948 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature