PIPSQC is pleased to share the 9 abstracts below from the SPS Spring 2021 National Learning Session, recently highlighted in Pediatric Quality and Safety (PQS):
https://journals.lww.com/pqs/pages/latestarticles.aspx [...] 

PIPSQC is pleased to share the recent article in Children's Hospitals Today, entitled "Showing the Value of Quality Improvement Work in a Children's Hospital." [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the recent publication in JAMA Pediatrics, entitled "Assessment of an Unplanned Extubation Bundle to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in Critically Ill Neonates, Infants, and Children." [...] 

Are children more susceptible to unplanned extubation? According to studies of various literature and research, yes.

Unplanned extubation - or UE as it's commonly referred - is the unplanned, uncontrolled removal of a patient's life-sustaining breathing tube. And it's been reported that more than 18% of neonatal ICU patients experience unplanned extubation - this is higher than the average among adult ICU patients. [...]
 

PIPSQC is pleased to share the new publication in Pediatric Quality & Safety (PQS), entitled "Reducing Unplanned Extubations Across a Children's Hospital Using Quality Improvement Methods." [...]