Clinical trial NCT05505799: Community Medical Center, Continuous Quality Improvement Project, Rapid Sequence Intubation
Official title: Community Medical Center, Continuous Quality Improvement Project, Rapid Sequence Intubation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Intubation, Intratracheal
Rapid Sequence Induction and Intubation
Checklist
Lead sponsor: Community Medical Center, Toms River, NJ
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-08-18
Enrollment: 700
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SEQUENTIAL
Intervention model description: Before and After study of a Checklist Intervention
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: To assess the ongoing continuous quality improvement of rapid sequence intubation in our emergency department. Ongoing assessment will address standardization of the process and protocol driven measures that will improve the overall quality of the intervention.

Detailed description: Continuous evaluation and improvement of airway performance in the Emergency Department (ED) is essential for achieving positive clinical outcomes and reducing the incidence of related adverse events. First-pass success (FPS) in Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) is the most commonly utilized metric for evaluation and allows for comparison across clinical environments. According to a variety of studies published over the last decade, including a large, multi-center systematic review and meta-analysis, the mean FPS rate (84%) has been used as an institutional benchmark for ED airway proficiency.

Unfortunately, many complications can arise during RSI, the incidence of which has remained high. These complications commonly lead to poor or life-threatening outcomes and include desaturation, hypotension, dysrhythmia, cardiac arrest, pneumothorax, dental trauma, and esophageal intubation. According to the 4th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anesthetists, it was determined that 30% of patients in the ED and 60% of patients in the ICU experiencing an airway related incident, suffered brain damage or death. The number of failed intubation attempts (3+) has been directly correlated with the an increased development of complications. Thus, establishing effective methods of decreasing the occurrence of failed attempts will result in an immediate reduction of unintended issues.

To maximize FPS and increase the safety of the procedure, it is essential to develop a tool to maximize efficacy. The introduction of checklists as a process improvement tool has been identified as a successful strategy for improving the effectiveness and quality of procedures throughout healthcare. Integration of a checklist in the RSI procedure will help to increase FPS rates and act as a method to aid in continuous evaluation and improvement of overall airway performance.

Although many airway performance improvement studies exist, our institution is unique in that we are a new Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency program that will be comprised of only post-graduate year 1 (PGY1) and post-graduate year 2 (PGY2) EM residents at the commencement of data collection. Furthermore, our clinical skills training process involves an integrative approach, pioneered by our interdisciplinary team of educators. Continuous evaluation of FPS and the incidence of RSI-related complications will allow for assessment of not only our quality improvement initiative, but of our educational methodology as well. Overall, implementation of quality and performance improvement strategies can mitigate the occurrence of adverse events and lead to improved health outcomes for our patients. This is of paramount importance to us as providers and to our community as a whole.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Any patient undergoing endotracheal intubation in the Emergency department

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age \< 18 years old

Primary outcomes:
measure: First Pass Success Rate
timeFrame: At time of intubation
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Aspiration rate
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Cardiac arrest
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Cuff Leak
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Dental trauma
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Dysrhythmia
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Esophageal intubation
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Unplanned extubation
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Post procedural hypotension
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Hypoxemia
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Laryngospasm
timeFrame: At time of intubation
measure: Mainstem intubation
timeFrame: At time of intubation
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toms River
country: United States
facility: Community Medical Center
state: New Jersey
Study officials:
affiliation: Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health Community Medical Center
name: Josesph Roarty, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Sakles JC, Augustinovich CC, Patanwala AE, Pacheco GS, Mosier JM. Improvement in the Safety of Rapid Sequence Intubation in the Emergency Department with the Use of an Airway Continuous Quality Improvement Program. West J Emerg Med. 2019 Jul;20(4):610-618. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2019.4.42343. Epub 2019 Jun 3.
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