Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship Training in the United States and Canada: Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Endorsed Subcompetencies to the 2022 Entrustable Professional Activities.
We aimed to define and map subcompetencies required for pediatric cardiac critical care (PCCC) fellowship education and training under the auspices of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS). We used the 2022 frameworks for PCCC fellowship learning objectives by Tabbutt et al and for entrustable professional activities (EPAs) by Werho et al and integrated new subcompetencies to the EPAs. This complementary update serves to provide a foundation for standardized trainee assessment tools for PCCC. ⋯ This represents the 2023 update to the PCCC fellowship education and training EPAs with the defining and mapping of 110 subcompetencies to the nine established 2022 EPAs. This goal of this update is to serve as the next step in the integration of EPAs into a standardized competency-based assessment framework for trainees in PCCC.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Multicenter StudyHealthcare Burden and Resource Utilization After Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Secondary Analysis of the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Study.
To describe family healthcare burden and health resource utilization in pediatric survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) at 3 and 9 months. ⋯ Pediatric ARDS survivors report high rates of healthcare burden and health resource utilization at 3- and 9-month post-ARDS. Future studies should assess the impact of improved care coordination to simplify care (e.g., medication management) and improve family burden.
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For patients requiring transfer to a higher level of care, excellent interfacility communication is essential. Our objective was to characterize verbal handoffs for urgent interfacility transfers of children to the PICU and compare these characteristics with known elements of high-quality intrahospital shift-to-shift handoffs. ⋯ Interfacility PICU referral communication shared characteristics with intrahospital shift-to-shift handoffs; however, communication did not adhere to known elements of high-quality handovers. Structured tools specific to PICU interfacility referral communication must be developed and investigated for effectiveness in improving communication and patient outcomes.