1. Tracheal Intubation by Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Pediatric Critical Care: Retrospective Study From the National Emergency Airway for Children Registry (2015-2019).
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Van Damme DM, McRae EM, Irving SY, Kelly SP, Tarquinio KM, Giuliano JS Jr, Ruppe MD, Kierys KL, Breuer RK, Parsons SJ, Mallory PP, Shenoi AN, Swain KA, Polikoff LA, Lee A, Adu-Darko MA, Napolitano N, Shults J, Nishisaki A, and Berkenbosch JW
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- Infant, Child, Humans, Retrospective Studies, Critical Illness therapy, Intubation, Intratracheal adverse effects, Registries, Critical Care, Advanced Practice Nursing, Nurses
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Objectives: To describe tracheal intubation (TI) practice by Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North American PICUs, including rates of TI-associated events (TIAEs) from 2015 to 2019., Design/setting: Retrospective study using the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children with all TIs performed in PICU and pediatric cardiac ICU between January 2015 and December 2019. The primary outcome was first attempt TI success rate. Secondary outcomes were TIAEs, severe TIAEs, and hypoxemia., Subjects: Critically ill children requiring TI in a PICU or pediatric cardiac ICU., Interventions: None., Measurements and Main Results: Among 11,012 TIs, APRNs performed 1,626 (14.7%). Overall, TI by APRNs, compared with other clinicians, occurred less frequently in patients with known difficult airway (11.1% vs. 14.3%; p < 0.001), but more frequently in infants younger than 1 year old (55.9% vs. 44.4%; p < 0.0001), and in patients with cardiac disease (26.3% vs. 15.9%; p < 0.0001).There was lower odds of success in first attempt TI for APRNs vs. other clinicians (adjusted odds ratio, 0.70; 95% CI, 0.62-0.79). We failed to identify a difference in rates of TIAE, severe TIAE, and oxygen desaturation events for TIs by APRNs compared with other clinicians. The TI first attempt success rate improved with APRN experience (< 1 yr: 54.2%, 1-5 yr: 59.4%, 6-10 yr: 67.6%, > 10 yr: 63.1%; p = 0.021)., Conclusions: TI performed by APRNs was associated with lower odds of first attempt success when compared with other ICU clinicians although there was no appreciable difference in procedural adverse events. There appears to be a positive relationship between experience and success rates. These data suggest there is an ongoing need for opportunities to build on TI competency with APRNs., Competing Interests: Dr. Polikoff received funding from Novavax. Drs. Napolitano’s and Shults’s institutions received funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (R18HS024511). Dr. Napolitano’s institution received funding from Drager, Timpel, Respironics, Actuated Medical, and Vero-Biotech. Dr. Shults received support for article research from the AHRQ (R18HS024511). Dr. Berkenbosch received funding from Pfizer. Dr. Nishisaki’s institution received funding from the AHRQ, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Chiesi USA; she received support for article research from the AHRQ. The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest., (Copyright © 2023 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies.)
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- 2024
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