Morgan L Brown,Anna Dorste,Phillip S Adams,Lisa A Caplan,Stephen J Gleich,Jennifer L Hernandez,Lori Q Riegger,
{"title":"Proposed Quality Metrics for Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Morgan L Brown,Anna Dorste,Phillip S Adams,Lisa A Caplan,Stephen J Gleich,Jennifer L Hernandez,Lori Q Riegger,","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000007208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007208","url":null,"abstract":"Congenital cardiac anesthesiologists practice in a unique environment with high risk for morbidity and mortality. Quality metrics can be used to focus clinical initiatives on evidence-based care and provide a target for local quality improvement measures. However, there has been no comprehensive review on appropriate quality metrics for congenital cardiac anesthesia to date. Members of the Quality and Safety Committee for the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society proposed 31 possible candidate topics for metrics. Using a scoping review strategy, 3649 abstracts were reviewed with 30 articles meeting final criteria. Of these, 5 candidate metrics were unanimously proposed for local collection and national benchmarking efforts: use of a structured handover in the intensive care unit, use of an infection prevention bundle, use of blood conservation strategies, early extubation of cardiopulmonary bypass cases, and cardiac arrest under the care of a cardiac anesthesiologist. Many metrics were excluded due to a lack of primary data and perceived complexity beyond the scope of cardiac anesthesia practice. There is a need to develop more primary data including linking process measures with outcomes, developing risk-stratification for our patients, and collecting national data for benchmarking purposes.","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"193 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142443692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Ether Observation by Joseph Priestley Pertaining to the Second Gas Effect.","authors":"Theodore A Alston","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000007020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel K O'Conor,Shubhro Bose,Brit J Long,Joseph K Maddry,Michael D April,Steven G Schauer
{"title":"An Analysis of Patients Undergoing Cricothyrotomy Within US Central Command: A Transportation Command Regulating and Command & Control Evacuation System Study.","authors":"Daniel K O'Conor,Shubhro Bose,Brit J Long,Joseph K Maddry,Michael D April,Steven G Schauer","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000006920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000006920","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agents That Came in From the Cold: Enflurane, Isoflurane, Desflurane, and Sevoflurane.","authors":"Raymond C Roy","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000007017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142321031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving Obstetric Anesthesia Care Through Teaming and Improvement Science.","authors":"Beth Ann Clayton,Andrea Girnius","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000007002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Safety Monitoring\" Behavior and Technology: Reflections From the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation 2023 E. C. Pierce, MD, Memorial Lecture.","authors":"John H Eichhorn","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000007023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alok Moharir,Yoshikazu Yamaguchi,Jennifer H Aldrink,Andrea Martinez,Mauricio Arce-Villalobos,Sibelle Aurelie Yemele Kitio,Julie Rice-Weimer,Joseph D Tobias
{"title":"Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound to Evaluate Lung Isolation During One-Lung Ventilation in Children: A Blinded Observational Feasibility Study.","authors":"Alok Moharir,Yoshikazu Yamaguchi,Jennifer H Aldrink,Andrea Martinez,Mauricio Arce-Villalobos,Sibelle Aurelie Yemele Kitio,Julie Rice-Weimer,Joseph D Tobias","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000007155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000007155","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUNDMinimally invasive thoracic surgical techniques require effective lung isolation using one-lung ventilation (OLV). Verification of lung isolation may be confirmed by auscultation, visual confirmation using fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB), or more recently, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). The aim of this study was to prospectively compare lung ultrasound with clinical auscultation to confirm OLV before thoracic surgery in pediatric patients.METHODSThis prospectively blinded feasibility study included 40 patients ranging in age from 0 to 20 years. After confirmation of lung separation by the primary anesthesia team using FOB, the sonographer and the auscultator, both blinded to the laterality of surgery and lung separation, entered the operating room. The sonographer evaluated for pleural lung sliding and the auscultator listened for breath sounds. Successful lung separation was definitively confirmed by direct visualization of lung collapse during the operation.RESULTSIn confirming effective single-lung ventilation, lung ultrasound had a diagnostic accuracy of 95% (95% confidence interval [CI], 82.7%-98.5%). In contrast, auscultation could only reliably confirm lung isolation with 68% accuracy (95% CI, 51.5%-80.4%). The McNemar test showed a statistically significant difference between the use of lung ultrasound and auscultation (P < .001). The median time to perform ultrasonography was 67 seconds (interquartile range [IQR], 46-142) and the median time to perform auscultation was 21 seconds (IQR, 10-32).CONCLUSIONSBased on the initial results of our feasibility trial, lung ultrasound proved to be a fast and reliable method to verify single-lung ventilation in pediatric patients presenting for thoracic surgery with a high degree of diagnostic accuracy.","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142233281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea Girnius,Candice Snyder,Heather Czarny,Thomas Minges,Michael Stacey,Tamara Supinski,John Crowe,Judith Strong,Sean A Josephs,Muhammad A Zafar
{"title":"Preoperative Multidisciplinary Team Huddle Improves Communication and Safety for Unscheduled Cesarean Deliveries: A System Redesign Using Improvement Science.","authors":"Andrea Girnius,Candice Snyder,Heather Czarny,Thomas Minges,Michael Stacey,Tamara Supinski,John Crowe,Judith Strong,Sean A Josephs,Muhammad A Zafar","doi":"10.1213/ane.0000000000006905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1213/ane.0000000000006905","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUNDOptimal communication between care teams is a critical component in providing safe, timely, and appropriate patient care. Labor and delivery (L&D) units experience rapidly changing clinical scenarios often requiring escalation in care and unplanned cesarean deliveries (CDs). The University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) is a 550-bed academic level 4 maternal care center with a 13-bed L&D unit in Cincinnati, OH. There are approximately 2500 deliveries/y with a CD rate of 33%. The L&D unit is staffed with dedicated anesthesia personnel 24 hours a day. In our L&D unit, there was widespread dissatisfaction with multidisciplinary communication surrounding unscheduled CD. Near-miss safety events in our obstetric unit were attributed to preoperative communication failures. Initial surveys identified challenges in preoperative communication among nursing, anesthesiology, and obstetric teams leading to potential risk for compromised care.METHODUsing the UC Health Performance Improvement Way, we first sought to understand the process leading up to unscheduled CD. Change ideas were developed based on observed failures in communication. Interventions were tested and refined through iterative plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycles. One key intervention was the introduction of a bedside, multidisciplinary, patient-centered, pre-CD huddle attended by nursing, anesthesia, and obstetrics representatives using a standard checklist for critical information. Qualitative patient feedback was elicited to inform change efforts. We compared patient and procedure characteristics from the baseline and huddle implementation phases.MEASURESOur primary outcome measure was the satisfaction of care team members with communication around unscheduled CD. A secondary outcome was the general anesthesia (GA) rate for unscheduled CD. Our key process measure was adherence to the preoperative huddle. We tracked decision-to-incision interval (DTI) as a balancing measure.RESULTSHuddle adherence reached 96% for unscheduled CD within 6 months of testing and implementation. A combined survey of anesthesia, nursing, and obstetrics showed that satisfaction scores related to unscheduled CD communication improved from 3.3/5 to 4.7/5 after huddle implementation. The rate of GA use and the median DTI remained unchanged. Patients felt more engaged and reported positive experiences by being a part of the huddle discussion.CONCLUSIONSIn an academic obstetric unit, communication failures surrounding unscheduled CD were identified as a contributor to staff dissatisfaction and perception of safety risk. Implementation of a bedside multidisciplinary pre-CD huddle improved communication between teams and contributed to creating a culture of safety without causing significant delays in care.","PeriodicalId":7799,"journal":{"name":"Anesthesia & Analgesia","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142233278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}