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Personnel and unit factors impacting outcome after cardiac arrest in a dedicated pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.
Personnel and unit factors impacting outcome after cardiac arrest in a dedicated pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.
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Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies [Pediatr Crit Care Med] 2012 Sep; Vol. 13 (5), pp. 583-8. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Objective: To assess the impact of personnel and unit factors on outcome from cardiac arrest in a dedicated pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.<br />Design: Retrospective medical record review.<br />Setting: Dedicated cardiac intensive care unit at a quaternary academic children's hospital.<br />Patients: Children and young adults who had cardiac arrest while cared for in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2008.<br />Interventions: None.<br />Measurements and Main Results: One hundred two index cardiac arrests over a 3-yr period in our pediatric cardiac intensive care unit were reviewed. We defined successful resuscitation as either return of spontaneous circulation or successful cannulation to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Differences in resuscitation rates were assessed across categorical systems variables using logistic regression. The rate of successful resuscitation was 84% (return of spontaneous circulation 74%, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation 10%). Survival to hospital discharge was 48% for patients who had a cardiac arrest. 11% of arrests during the week and 31% during weekends (odds ratio 3.8; 95% confidence interval 1.2-11.5) were not successfully resuscitated. Unsuccessful resuscitation was significantly more likely when the primary nurse had <1 yr of experience in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (50% <1 yr vs. 13% >1 yr; odds ratio 6.8; confidence interval 1.5-31.0). Cardiac arrest on a weekend day and <1-yr pediatric cardiac intensive care unit nursing experience were also associated with unsuccessful resuscitation in a multivariable model. Resuscitation outcomes were similar when senior intensive care unit attending physicians were on-call at the time of arrest compared with other intensive care unit staff (17% unsuccessful vs. 15%; odds ratio 1.2; confidence interval 0.4-3.7). Arrests where the attending physician was present at the onset resulted in unsuccessful resuscitation 18% of the time vs. 14% for events where the attending was not present (odds ratio 1.3; confidence interval 0.5-3.9).<br />Conclusions: Our data suggest that personnel and unit factors may impact outcome after cardiac arrest in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. Weekend arrests and less experience of the primary nurse were risk factors for unsuccessful resuscitation. Neither presence at arrest onset nor experience of the attending cardiac intensivist was associated with outcome.
- Subjects :
- After-Hours Care standards
Confidence Intervals
Coronary Care Units standards
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Heart Arrest nursing
Hospital Mortality
Hospitalists
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric standards
Multivariate Analysis
Odds Ratio
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Resuscitation
Retrospective Studies
Time Factors
After-Hours Care organization & administration
Clinical Competence
Coronary Care Units organization & administration
Heart Arrest therapy
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric organization & administration
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1529-7535
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22079956
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0b013e318238b272