Quality improvement effort to decrease unplanned extubations in a cardiac neonatal intensive care unit

F Kim, C Brooks, S Villaraza-Morales… - Pediatric Quality & …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Unplanned extubations (UEs) can cause serious complications in neonates in
the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In September 2017, NYP Morgan Stanley opened a
17-bed infant cardiac NICU in addition to the existing 58-bed general NICU. Objectives: To
determine baseline UE rate and implement initiatives to decrease the baseline rate to< 0.5
UE per 100 ventilator days and maintain this rate for at least a year. Methods: Baseline UE
data were collected in the infant cardiac NICU from October 2017 to January 2018. This …
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