Quality and process improvement (QI/PI) in children's surgical care require reliable data across the care continuum. Since 2012, the American College of Surgeons' (ACS) National Surgical Quality Improvement Program-Pediatric (NSQIP-Pediatric) has supported QI/PI by providing participating hospitals with risk-adjusted, comparative data regarding postoperative outcomes for multiple surgical specialties. To advance this goal over the past decade, iterative changes have been introduced to case inclusion and data collection, analysis and reporting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol
February 2020
Purpose: To determine the relevance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning regarding general anesthesia (GA) in children under 3 years of age for procedures lasting longer than 3 h, by surgical specialty and for otolaryngology specifically.
Methods: A one-year retrospective review was conducted at a tertiary-care medical center for all children younger than 3 years undergoing surgical procedures with durations greater than 3 h. De-identified data related to age, surgical service, procedure types, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification, and general anesthesia time were collected and examined.
Background: Metatropic dysplasia is a rare form of skeletal dysplasia requiring multiple anesthetics for surgical and imaging procedures, most of which are orthopedic procedures. We provide centralized care to patients with skeletal dysplasia at our tertiary care pediatric hospital, and we were able to collect the largest number of metatropic dysplasia patients reported to date.
Aim: The aim of this retrospective study was to describe and characterize the anesthetic difficulties in this high-risk population.
Wrong site surgery is a serious safety event that can result in temporary or even permanent harm. Various safety checklists and procedures have been added to our standard work in the operating room, but errors still get through our safety nets and patients are harmed. In this case report, we describe a wrong site frenulectomy in a child and discuss the root cause analysis of this error and also SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timed) preventative actions that could be put into place to prevent a recurrence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2006, the Quality and Safety Committee of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia initiated a quality improvement project for the specialty of pediatric anesthesiology that ultimately resulted in the development of Wake Up Safe (WUS), a patient safety organization that maintains a registry of de-identified, serious adverse events. The ultimate goal of WUS is to implement change in processes of care that improve the quality and safety of anesthetic care provided to pediatric patients nationwide. Member institutions of WUS submit data regarding the types and numbers of anesthetics performed and information pertaining to serious adverse events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The adult practice for ECG-gated single-source 64-slice coronary CTA (CCTA) includes administering beta-blockers to reduce heart rate. There are limited data on this process in children.
Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of a drug regimen to decrease heart rate before performing CCTA in children.
Anesthesiol Clin North Am
December 2004
Solid organ transplantation is now routinely performed at many institutions. Pediatric organ recipients present difficult challenges to pediatric anesthesiologists. Physiologic, anatomic, and pharmacologic derangements in this population may make both the surgical procedure and the anesthetic management complicated.
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