NQMC Update Service: March 31, 2014 ► Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

NQMC Update Service: March 31, 2014

March 31, 2014 New This Week

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of circuits used per 7-day blocks of mechanical ventilation (MV).

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of days patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) were positioned greater than or equal to 30 degrees.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients at risk with mechanical ventilation (MV) treated with digestive tract decontamination.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients diagnosed with exacerbation of COPD treated with early non-invasive mechanical ventilation (MV).

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients receiving prophylaxis against deep vein thromboembolism (DVTE).

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients undergoing mechanical ventilation (MV) with daily spontaneous breathing trials.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients with acute lung injury (ALI)/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) receiving lung-protective ventilation.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) for whom serious complications after prone positioning are registered.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients with heat-and-moisture exchangers who had appropriate replacement.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of patients with invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) greater than 12 hours and barotrauma.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of reintubations.

• Acute respiratory failure: percentage of unplanned extubations.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of fractured femurs treated surgically within 24 hours.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of in-hospital deaths among patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of open fractures with surgical fixation within 24 hours of admission.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with ischemic stroke susceptible to fibrinolysis in patients examined by CT within 2 hours.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with ischemic stroke undergoing intravenous fibrinolysis.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with mechanical ventilation (MV) for more than 72 hours developing critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP).

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with post-anoxic encephalopathy undergoing somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP).

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with severe trauma who develop acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and pathologic CT findings in whom intracranial pressure (ICP) was monitored.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) who were intubated.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) treated with nimodipine.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) undergoing cerebral angiography within 48 hours.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and subdural hematoma (SDH)/epidural hematoma (EDH) with intracranial hypertension undergoing surgical intervention within 2 hours.

• Neurointensive care and traumatology: percentage of potentially severe trauma patients examined by an intensivist on admission.