Publications by authors named "Susan A Stuart"
Introduction: Survival and recovery after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) varies between hospitals, with better outcomes associated with high-volume and specialty care. We evaluated if there is a similar relationship with organ donation after OHCA.
Methods: We studied a cohort of adults resuscitated from OHCA from 2010 to 2018, treated at one of 112 hospitals served by a regional organ procurement organization (OPO).
Background: We compared the characteristics and outcomes of post-arrest donors to those of other donors, described the proportion of post-arrest decedents who donated, and compared their characteristics to post-arrest decedents who did not donate.
Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study including patients who died at a single academic medical center from January 1, 2010 to February 28, 2019. We linked our registry of consecutive post-arrest patients to donation-related data from the Center for Organ Procurement and Recovery (CORE).
Purpose: Serious clinical deterioration precedes most cardiopulmonary arrests, and there is evidence that organized responses to this deterioration may prevent a substantial proportion of in-hospital deaths. We aimed to increase the utilization of our medical crisis response team (Condition C) to impact this source of mortality.
Methods: We have examined the change in numbers of Condition Cs and the main alternative response strategy (sequential stat pages) after the implementation of 4 strategies to increase Condition C utilization: (1) immediate reviews of all sequential STAT pages, (2) feedback to caregivers responsible for delays in Condition C activation, (3) creation of objective criteria for invoking a crisis response, and (4) dissemination of objective criteria through posting in units, e-mail, and in-service oral presentations.