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December QI Spotlight: It's RSV Season! A study from Children's Hospital/Penn Medicine, Nemours Children's Health, & STLChildrensHospital saw improvement with adherence to palivizumab guidelines for infants with congenital heart disease using QI methods. #PICUQI #PedsICU #pedscicu link.springer.com/article/10.100…

January QI Spotlight: Duke Peds Critical Care published an article in August 2023 in Seminars in Pediatric Surgery highlighting the endless possibilities of QI initiatives in pediatric ECMO patients. Check it out! #PICUQI #PedsICU PediECMO pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37935089/

February QI Spotlight: Yu Inata et al. used QI methods to implement education, feedback, and alert signs to reduce 5% albumin use in pediatric patients in the PICU over 3 study periods and 2 phases. Read the whole article in Pediatric Quality & Safety! #PICUQI #PedsICU journals.lww.com/pqs/fulltext/2…

March QI Spotlight: American Thoracic Society (ATS) used quality improvement methods for their clinical practice guidelines in the 2023 executive summary to formulate recommendations for pediatric ventilator liberation and extubation readiness. PALISI #PICUQI #PedsICU atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.11…

April QI Spotlight: Children's customized a reporting tool to facilitate handoffs between the Emergency Department and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to mitigate adverse events and safely transfer patient care using QI methods. #PICUQI #PedsICU pediatricnursing.org/article/S0882-…

July QI Spotlight: Repost from Pediatric Quality & Safety on this quality improvement initiative in the emergency department Nemours Children's Health to decrease high flow nasal cannula use in mild to moderate bronchiolitis #PICUQI #PedsICU

August QI Spotlight: Researchers Seattle Children's implemented a standard pathway using QI methods to optimize the use of iNO in the PICU, CICU, and NICU. What did results show? Read the article Pediatric Critical Care Medicine PedsICU_tweets #PICUQI #PedsICU journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/fu…

September QI Spotlight: Physicians from OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital & University of Maryland Medical Center discuss the importance and advantage of supporting Pediatric Neurocritical Care in the pedneurojournal to improve neurocognitive outcomes for patients via QI methodologies: #PICUQI #PedsICU pedneur.com/article/S0887-…

October QI Spotlight: Investigators at the University of Calgary performed a systematic review to examine quality improvement methods to prevent unplanned extubations in the PICU and optimize patient safety. #PICUQI #PedsICU pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC97…

November QI Spotlight: Razvan Azamfirei 🦋 @razvanazamfirei.bsky.social, Sapna Kudchadkar, MD, PhD, et al. present a secondary analysis of the PICU Up! dataset to highlight a need for quality improvement processes to standardize/increase frequency of delirium screening. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine #PICUQI #PedsICU journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/pa…

Happy New Year! The January QI Spotlight is on the University of Utah PICU team in SLC, UT and their work implementing a Targeted Temperature Management bundle after Cardiac Arrest in the PICU! Pediatric Critical Care Medicine #PedsQI #PedsICU SCCM Pediatrics Section PedsICU_tweets journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/fu…

February QI Spotlight: from Pediatric Quality & Safety: MUSC Children's Health used QI methods to implement a formal ICU mobility protocol and showed decreased time to therapy consultation, increase in therapy consults, and an increase in mobilization rate #PICUQI #PedsICU journals.lww.com/pqs/fulltext/2…

March QI Spotlight: Air Medical Journal used QI methods to implement a simulation-based learning program to improve pediatric intubation during neonatal and pediatric critical care transports with improved performance and self-competency! #PICUQI #PedsICU airmedicaljournal.com/article/S1067-…

April QI Spotlight: University of Utah Health and Intermountain Childrens Health investigators used QI methods through collaborative huddles and digital prompts to increase pediatric palliative care consultation for children with congenital heart disease Pediatric Quality & Safety #PICUQI #PedsICU journals.lww.com/pqs/fulltext/2…

June QI Spotlight: Providers at Children's Hospital developed a measurable harm index using QI methods to increase surveillance and reduce injury in critically ill patients with arterial catheters. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine #PICUQI #PedsICU journals.lww.com/pccmjournal/fu…