• Prehosp Emerg Care · Aug 2024

    Changing the Culture to Improve CCF: An Improvement Project.

    • Joshua Kimbrell, Jacob Geldner, Dheuris Rodriguez, Dana Poke, Brittany Kalosza, Maria Rampersaud, Christian Dupree, Rick Allgood, Mike Taigman, and John Vega.
    • Department of Pre-Hospital Care, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, Queens, New York.
    • Prehosp Emerg Care. 2024 Aug 15: 151-5.

    ObjectivesAfter identifying chest compression fraction (CCF) as a key area for improvement, our Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agency aimed to improve our baseline monthly median CCF from 81.5% to 90% or more in paramedic-attended medical cardiac arrests by December 2023. The CCF is a process measure that, if improved, has been shown to increase likelihood of survival from cardiac arrest. Working as a hospital EMS agency within a large urban 9-1-1 system, our interventions focused on paramedics once they arrived on scene.MethodsThis project used repeated Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles with brainstorming sessions, focus groups, and data review to achieve improvement. Interventions included standardized clinician feedback forms, increased follow-up for patients with ongoing resuscitation, a designated CPR team leader during resuscitations, and a pre-charged defibrillator prior to rhythm checks. These interventions were evaluated by tabulating weekly and monthly median CCF performance, seeking participant feedback, and reviewing control charts. These results were reported according to the Revised Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE 2.0).ResultsOur control chart analysis revealed special cause variation and an increase in average CCF to 89.0%. This improvement was achieved through successful implementation of process changes using PDSA cycles. Our most effective and popular intervention was our clinician feedback forms. Additionally, re-unifying patients and their successful resuscitation teams, participating in resuscitation academy events, and pre-charging the defibrillator to minimize CPR pauses collectively resulted in systemic improvement in resuscitation performance.ConclusionsThe findings illustrate that targeted education, increased clinician feedback, patient-team reunification, and high-performance resuscitation strategies produce measurable improvement in CCF.

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