Tracheal Intubations for Critically Ill Children Outside Specialized Centers in the United Kingdom-Patient, Provider, Practice Factors, and Adverse Events.
Tracheal Intubations for Critically Ill Children Outside Specialized Centers in the United Kingdom-Patient, Provider, Practice Factors, and Adverse Events.
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英国专科中心外危重儿童的气管插管——患者、提供者、实践因素和不良事件。
DOI:
10.1097/pcc.0000000000001946
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2019
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Nishisaki,Akira
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SandersJr,Ron;Edwards,Lauren;Nishisaki,Akira
Performing airway management in a sick pediatric patient is a stressful event on many levels. Specifically patient, provider, and practice factors have substantial impact in the outcomes of airway management. Oftentimes, the child presents in extremis with refractory hypoxia or hypercarbia, hypotension, and a full stomach to an inauspicious setting with less-experienced staff (direct airway provider as well as supporting staff) and a limited selection of airway devices (eg, unavailability of video laryngoscopy or laryngeal mask as a rescue device). These suboptimal patient, provider, and practice conditions will increase adverse events and complications even in the best of hands (ie, trained, board-certified anesthesiologist). In the multicenter PICU database, with the majority of data from the United States, 16–20% of pediatric tracheal intubations (TIs) are associated with adverse events (1–4) In this issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Matettore et al (5) reported their multicenter prospective observational study that tracked TIs that were performed in children (0–16 yr old) at 47 nonspecialized local hospitals in the North Thames and East Anglia region of the United Kingdom over a24-month period. They evaluated adverse TI-associated events (TIAEs), which included those categorized as nonsevere, such as endobronchial (mainstem) intubation, airway trauma, bradycardia, hypertension, tachycardia, and unanticipated difficult airway, as well as severe TIAEs, such as esophageal intubation, hypoxia (peripheral capillary hemoglobin oxygen saturation< 90% for> 2 min), cardiac arrest, aspiration of gastric contents, pneumothorax, hypotension, surgical airway,“Can’t intubate, CAN ventilate,” and “Can’t intubate; CANNOT ventilate.” Bradycardia, tachycardia, hypotension, and hypertension had age-specific criteria.They were able to analyze 1,051 patients out of the eligible 1,237 patients. Adverse TIAEs occurred in 22.7% of the patients. This TIAE rate seems higher than those in PICUs and cardiac ICUs, likely due to the following reasons: 1) their TIAE definitions include hypoxia whereas the National Emergency Airway Registry for Children (NEAR4KIDS) reports hypoxia separately and 2) their patient population may be more acutely ill, as most TIs are for urgent and emergent indications, whereas PICU intubations from NEAR4KIDS include 15–20% as “procedural” intubations (4, 6). Given that the overwhelming majority of intubations were performed by an anesthesiologist in their cohort, their adverse TIAE rates may have been higher if the majority of their providers were nonanesthesiologist trainees. They found that 45% of the patients had preexisting comorbidities. The most common induction agents included fentanyl, ketamine, and propofol, whereas succinylcholine was the most common neuromuscular blocking agent. The most common nonsevere TIAEs included endobronchial intubation, bradycardia, and unanticipated difficult airway. The predominant severe TIAEs included hypotension, hypoxia, and esophageal intubation. Cardiac arrest occurred 1.6% of the time, which is surprisingly similar to TIs in the PICUs (7). Their findings were similar to Easley et al (8) who conducted a prospective study of 244 children intubated in community hospitals, emergency departments, and children’s hospital emergency departments in the United States, finding that major and minor variances occurred in 37% of patients who were intubated outside of a children’s hospital. Not surprisingly, children with a higher grade of airway difficulty experienced more complications. Patients with comorbidities were more likely to suffer severe TIAEs during TI. Interestingly, system factors …