Unplanned icu transfer

BACKGROUND: Critical incident reporting and analysis is one of the key components of patient safety in anesthesiology. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and characteristics of critical incidents during anesthesia, main causes and factors involved, influence on patient outcomes, prevalence of incident reporting and further analysis. METHODS: A multicenter prospective audit was conducted at the clinical departments of the Bogomolets National Medical University during the period from 1 to 2021 to 1 December 2021...

Frequent assessment of the severity of illness for hospitalized patients is essential in clinical settings to prevent outcomes such as in-hospital mortality and unplanned admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Classical severity scores have been developed typically using relatively few patient features. Recently, deep learning-based models demonstrated better individualized risk assessments compared to classic risk scores, thanks to the use of aggregated and more heterogeneous data sources for dynamic risk prediction...

Children with single ventricle physiology (SV) are at high risk of in-hospital morbidity and mortality. Identifying children at risk for deterioration may allow for earlier escalation of care and subsequently decreased mortality.We conducted a retrospective chart review of all admissions to the pediatric cardiology non-ICU service from 2014 to 2018 for children < 18 years old. We defined clinical deterioration as unplanned transfer to the ICU or inpatient mortality. We selected children with SV by diagnosis codes and defined infants as children < 1 year old...

BACKGROUND: Tisagenlecleucel (tisa-cel) is an approved CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy in relapsed/refractory B cell malignancies. Given potentially life-threatening toxicities including cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS), inpatient tisa-cel infusion and toxicity monitoring is often considered. However, the toxicity profile of tisa-cel may be conducive to outpatient administration. We review the characteristics and outcomes of recipients treated in the outpatient setting STUDY DESIGN: Patients ≥ 18 yrs...

This study aimed to explore key quality control factors that affected the prognosis of intensive care unit (ICU) patients in Chinese mainland over six years (2015-2020). The data for this study were from 31 provincial and municipal hospitals (3425 hospital ICUs) and included 2 110 685 ICU patients, for a total of 27 607 376 ICU hospitalization days. We found that 15 initially established quality control indicators were good predictors of patient prognosis, including percentage of ICU patients out of all inpatients (%), percentage of ICU bed occupancy of total inpatient bed occupancy (%), percentage of all ICU inpatients with an APACHE II score ⩾15 (%), three-hour (surviving sepsis campaign) SSC bundle compliance (%), six-hour SSC bundle compliance (%), rate of microbe detection before antibiotics (%), percentage of drug deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis (%), percentage of unplanned endotracheal extubations (%), percentage of patients reintubated within 48 hours (%), unplanned transfers to the ICU (%), 48-h ICU readmission rate (%), ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) (per 1000 ventilator days), catheter related blood stream infection (CRBSI) (per 1000 catheter days), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) (per 1000 catheter days), in-hospital mortality (%)...

The pediatric early warning score (PEWS) is a tool used to predict clinical deterioration. Referenced vital sign parameters are based on expert opinion but heart rate and respiratory rate percentiles in hospitalized children have been published. This retrospective case-control study of unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) transfers compares evidence-based vital signs (EBVS) effect on PEWS sensitivity and specificity, determines the impact of age categories on PEWS deterioration prediction, and evaluates whether EBVS PEWS is associated with need for invasive ICU supports...

BACKGROUND: Traumatic rib fractures are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Clinical decision support systems (CDSS) have been shown to improve adherence to evidence-based (EB) practice and improve clinical outcomes. The objective of this study was to investigate if a rib fracture CDSS reduced hospital length of stay (LOS), 90-day and 1-year mortality, unplanned ICU transfer, and the need for mechanical ventilation. The independent association of two process measures, an admission EB order set and a pain-inspiratory-cough score early warning system, with LOS were investigated...

Continuous vital sign monitoring (CM) may detect ward patient's deterioration earlier than periodic monitoring. This could result in timely ICU transfers or in a transfer delay due to misperceived higher level of care on the ward. The primary objective of this study was to compare patient's disease severity upon unplanned ICU transfer, before and after CM implementation. We included a one-year period before and after CM implementation between August 1, 2017 - July 31, 2019. Before implementation, surgical and internal medicine patients' vital signs were periodically monitored, compared to continuous monitoring with wireless linkage to hospital systems after implementation...

AIM: This study investigated the current status and related risk factors of 48-hour unplanned return to the intensive care unit (ICU) to reduce the return rate and improve the quality of critical care management. METHODS: Data were collected from 2365 patients discharged from the comprehensive ICU. Multivariate and 1:1 propensity score matching analyses were performed. RESULTS: Forty patients (1.69%) had unplanned readmission to the ICU within 48 hours after transfer...

OBJECTIVE: To review and evaluate existing risk assessment tools for intensive care unitreadmission. METHODS: Nine electronic databases (Medline, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Embase, Sino Med, CNKI, VIP, and Wan fang) were systematically searched from their inception to September 2022. Two authors independently extracted data from the literature included. Meta-analysis was performed under the bivariate modeling and summary receiver operating characteristic curve method...

OBJECTIVES: Race and ethnicity are not routinely audited in Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathways. Given known racial disparities in outcomes in gynecologic oncology, the purpose of this study was to compare differences in ERAS implementation and outcomes by race. METHODS: A cohort study was performed among gynecologic oncology patients enrolled in an ERAS pathway at one academic institution from March 2017 to December 2021. Compliance with ERAS metrics, postoperative complications, 30-day survival, reoperations, intensive care unit (ICU) transfers, and readmissions within 30 days were compared by race...

Introduction. During hospitalization, patients may develop significant clinical deterioration and require unplanned admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This may result in increased morbidity and mortality. These events are often preceded by a deterioration phase that may go unnoticed. Objective. To determine the frequency, analyze the causes, and describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of unplanned transfers of hospitalized pediatric patients from the general pediatric ward (GPW) to the PICU, and analyze the differences between urgent and emergent transfers...

Inpatient rehabilitation should be assessed to improve each functional domain in patients with brain tumor. However, no previous study has reported risk factors for unplanned transfer of this patient population to primary acute care units during a comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation. The objective of this study was to investigate the percentage of unplanned transfer of brain tumor rehabilitation inpatients to primary acute care units compared with stroke patients and factors associated with such unplanned transfer...

OBJECTIVE: Factors leading to an unplanned return to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) in children after congenital heart disease and their impact on mortality have not been well characterized. We sought to determine the incidence and outcomes of unplanned return to the CICU. A secondary objective was to identify risk factors. METHODS: Retrospective analysis of the registration data collected by our unit. The study subjects included postoperative patients with congenital heart disease who survived to initial transfer out of the CICU...

Pregnancy after simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPKT) carries a high risk of maternal and fetal complications. We report the case of a 39-year-old woman with three consecutive pregnancies with favorable outcomes after SPKT. Within the first year of SPKT, the patient had a spontaneous pregnancy. At 32 weeks of gestation, she underwent an emergency cesarean section (CS) due to severe preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome. The infant was of average birth weight and was transferred to the neonatal intensive care unit for further management...

OBJECTIVE: Multiple comorbidities in hip fracture patients are associated with increased mortality and complications. The goal of this study was to characterize the relationship between specific patient factors including comorbidities and outcomes in geriatric hip fractures, including length of stay, unplanned ICU admission, discharge disposition, complications, and mortality. METHODS: This is a retrospective review of a trauma database from five Level 1 and Level 2 trauma centers of patients with hip fractures of the femoral neck and intertrochanteric region who underwent treatment using hip pinning, hemiarthroplasty, total hip arthroplasty, cephalomedullary nailing, or dynamic hip screw fixation...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the application value of the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) combined with age and injury site scores in predicting the criticality of emergency trauma patients. METHODS: The traditional MEWS was modified by combining it with age and injury site scores to form a new MEWS combined scoring standard. The clinical data were collected from a total of 372 trauma patients from the emergency department of the Nantong First People's Hospital between June and December 2019...

INTRODUCTION: Reproductive-age women with bleeding disorders (BDs) are underdiagnosed and understudied, despite their increased risk for adverse health outcomes and pregnancy complications. AIM: This study examines pregnancy outcomes and obstetric complications of Utah women with BDs. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study utilized linked birth records and clinical billing data from two large Utah healthcare systems. Utah residents who had their first birth at > 20 weeks gestation (2008-2015) and who received non-emergent care within either system before delivery were included (n = 61 226)...

OBJECTIVE: To compare textbook outcomes (TO) of open live donor right hepatectomy (RH) versus open right hepatic lobectomy for cancer in a single Western center, and to identify clinical factors associated with failure to achieve a TO. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: TO, a composite quality measure that captures multiple aspects of peri-operative care, has not been thoroughly studied in open RH. We hypothesized that TO rates after RH for live donor transplant could represent the "best-achievable" results of this operation and could serve as the benchmark for RH performed for an oncologic indication...

BACKGROUND: Hospitalized pediatric oncology patients are at risk of severe clinical deterioration. Yet Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) scores have not been prospectively validated in these patients. We aimed to determine the predictive performance of the modified BedsidePEWS score for unplanned pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in this patient population. METHODS: We performed a prospective cohort study in an 80-bed pediatric oncology hospital in the Netherlands, where care has been nationally centralized...