Synesis as a framework to enable safety interventions in complex healthcare environments.

Background: Despite wide adoption in the healthcare of safety event report (SER) systems, there is a paucity of unified structures for prompt analysis and action while retaining reporter confidentiality. We used a synesis framework to change siloed reviews of safety reports to a comprehensive appraisal of quality, safety, productivity and reliability to facilitate interventions.

Methods: After a needs assessment survey, we launched serial plan-do-study-act cycles to (1) enhance teams' ability to access SERs, (2) facilitate regular multidisciplinary review of SERs to identify actionable opportunities, (3) allocate action priority using failure mode and effects analysis, and (4) launch actions and summarise data.

Temporary ventricular assist device support with a catheter-based axial pump: Changing the paradigm at a pediatric heart center.

Objective: We report the largest pediatric single-center experience with an Impella (Abiomed Inc) catheter-based axial pump support.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of all patients with acute decompensated heart failure or cardiogenic shock requiring catheter-based axial pump support between October 2014 and February 2022. The primary outcome per individual encounter (hospital admission) was defined as bridge-to-recovery, bridge-to-durable ventricular assist device support, bridge-to-cardiac transplantation, or death at 6 months after catheter-based axial pump explantation.

Cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance: Clinical assessment compared with a noninvasive objective measurement in children with shock.

Purpose: To evaluate physician assessment of cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance in patients with shock compared with an ultrasonic cardiac output monitor (USCOM). To explore potential changes in therapy decisions if USCOM data were available using physician intervention answers.

Study Design: Double-blinded, prospective, observational study in a tertiary hospital pediatric intensive care unit.

Validation of an Ultrasound Cardiac Output Monitor as a Bedside Tool for Pediatric Patients.

The aim of our study was to determine the validity of cardiac output (CO) measurements taken with the ultrasonic cardiac output monitor (USCOM) by comparing to CO measured by pulmonary arterial catheter (PAC) thermodilution during cardiac catheterization. We enrolled thirty-one children (<18 years) undergoing cardiac catheterization in this double-blinded, prospective, observational study. The median CO measured by USCOM was 4.