Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · May 2023
Protecting Sleep Hygiene in the PICU: A Quality Improvement Project.
To increase the number of nights without sleep interruptions for routine tasks in recovering PICU patients. ⋯ The initiation of a sleep hygiene team along with retiming routine tasks, daily discussions on rounds with the daily goal sheet, introduction of a sleep hygiene order set, and transparent tracking improved the percentage of patients with protected sleep.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · May 2023
Child Opportunity Index and Emergent PICU Readmissions: A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Study of 43 U.S. Hospitals.
To examine the association between a validated composite measure of neighborhood factors, the Child Opportunity Index (COI), and emergent PICU readmission during the year following discharge for survivors of pediatric critical illness. ⋯ Children living in neighborhoods with lower child opportunity had an increased risk of emergent 1-year readmission to the PICU, particularly children with chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes. Assessing the neighborhood context to which children return following critical illness may inform community-level initiatives to foster recovery and reduce the risk of adverse outcomes.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · May 2023
Observational StudyEffects of Unit Census and Patient Acuity Levels on Discussions During Patient Rounds.
PICU teams adapt the duration of patient rounding discussions to accommodate varying contextual factors, such as unit census and patient acuity. Although studies establish that shorter discussions can lead to the omission of critical patient information, little is known about how teams adapt their rounding discussions about essential patient topics (i.e., introduction/history, acute clinical status, care plans) in response to changing contexts. To fill this gap, we examined how census and patient acuity impact time spent discussing essential topics during individual patient encounters. ⋯ Under high census and patient acuity levels, rounding teams disproportionately shorten time spent discussing essential patient topics. Of note, while teams preserved time to plan the care for acute patients, they cut care plan discussions of low acuity patients. This study provides needed detail regarding how rounding teams adapt their discussions of essential topics and establishes a foundation for consideration of varying contextual factors in the design of rounding guidelines. As ICUs are challenged with increasing census and patient acuity levels, it is critical that we turn our attention to these contextual aspects and understand how these adaptations impact clinical outcomes to address them.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · May 2023
Improving Daily Patient Goal-Setting and Team Communication: The Liber8 Glass Door Project.
To develop and implement a tool to improve daily patient goal setting, team collaboration and communication. ⋯ The Glass Door is a highly visible tool that can improve patient goal setting and collaborative team discussion with good uptake and acceptability among healthcare team members and patient families.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · May 2023
Prehospital Tranexamic Acid Administration in Pediatric Trauma Patients: A Propensity-Matched Analysis of the Israeli Defense Forces Registry.
Tranexamic acid (TXA) administration confers a survival benefit in bleeding trauma patients; however, data regarding its use in pediatric patients are limited. This study evaluates the prehospital treatment with TXA in pediatric trauma patients treated by the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps (IDF-MC). ⋯ Although prehospital TXA administration in the pediatric population is feasible with adverse event rate under 5%, more research is needed to determine the appropriate approach to pediatric hemostatic resuscitation and the role of TXA in this population.