Development of a Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plan for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

ABSTRACT: Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS) is one of the most challenging patient populations for a clinician to manage with mortality between 8 and 31%. The project was designed to identify patients with PARDS, implement management guidelines with the goal of standardizing practice. Our objectives were to describe the development and implementation of a protocolized approach to identify patients with PARDS and institute ventilator management guidelines. Patients who met criteria for moderate or severe PARDS as per the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC) definitions were identified using the best practice alert (BPA) in the electronic health record (EHR). Patients who did not meet exclusion criteria qualified for management using the Standardized Clinical A

SUBMITTER: Rajapreyar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345670 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature