Background: To improve pediatric airway management outside of the operating room, a Hospital-wide Emergency Airway Response Team (HEART) program composed of anesthesiology, otorhinolaryngology, and respiratory therapy clinicians was developed.Aims: To report processes and outcomes of HEART activations in a quaternary academic children's hospital.
Methods:A retrospective observational cohort study between January 2017 and December 2019. Local airway emergency database was reviewed for HEART activations. Additional safety data was obtained from patients' electronic health records.Primary outcome: Adverse airway outcomes, either adverse tracheal intubationassociated events or oxygen desaturation (SpO 2 <80%). We compared airway management by primary teams before HEART arrival and by HEART after arrival.
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