PIPSQC is pleased to highlight the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) and research in progress from the PC4 "Cardiac Arrest Prevention Quality Improvement Project." The research abstract, discussed in the article "Reducing Cardiac Arrests Among Pediatric Heart Patients," is available online at:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circ.140.suppl_1.11798 [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) Innovation Proposal Program. To participate, please submit innovation ideas to SPS by completing this Innovation Proposal document and emailing it to OCHSPS@cchmc.org by July 31. [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the upcoming Children's Healthcare Canada webinar event, "Collaborating to Eliminate Preventable Harm: A Report from Canadian members of Solutions for Patient Safety" is set to take place November 20, 2019 (11:00am - 12:00pm EST). [...] 

PIPSQC is pleased to highlight the recent publication in Pediatric Quality & Safety, entitled "Learning From Experience: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Multicenter Quality Improvement Collaboratives." [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to highlight the recent publication in Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics, entitled "Accelerating Improvement in Children's Healthcare Through Quality Improvement Collaboratives: a Synthesis of Recent Efforts." [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the latest articles from the Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics journal's Topical Collection on Patient Safety, edited by PIPSQC Executive, Dr. Matthew Scanlon. [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to share the latest episode of SPS Talk hosted by the Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS) Network, entitled "We Heard You: Top Ten Network Questions on CLABSI Prevention." [...]

PIPSQC is pleased to highlight the work of Cardiac Networks United: an integrated pediatric and congenital cardiovascular research and improvement network. [...]

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 recent publication in Clinical Trials, entitled "The design and conduct of Project RedDE: a cluster-randomized trial to reduce diagnostic errors in pediatric primary care." [...]