Improving Home Ventilator Alarm Use Among Children Requiring Chronic Mechanical Ventilation.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Children requiring long-term mechanical ventilation are at high risk of mortality. Setting ventilator alarms may improve safety, but best practices for setting ventilator alarms have not been established. Our objective was to increase the mean proportion of critical ventilator alarms set for those children requiring chronic mechanical ventilation followed in our pulmonary clinic from 63% to >90%.

Methods

Using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for Improvement, we developed, tested, and implemented a series of interventions using Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles. We followed our progress using statistical process control methods. Our primary interventions were: (1) standardization of the clinic workflow, (2) development of an algorithm to guide

SUBMITTER: Pajor NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9647581 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature