Improving documentation of endotracheal intubation in an adult emergency department

Abstract

Documentation improved slightly following the intervention, but was still unsatisfactory. We believe that to achieve an adequate level of documentation in the medical record for an episode of intubation, there needs to be a formal and structured mechanism, either via mandatory use of a specifically designed form and/or by participation in an organized data registry.

Effect of Educational Program on Nurses' practice Regarding Care of Adult Patients with Endotracheal Tube

“…This might be related to inform nurses that documentation protects and safe her from falling in mistakes. This result was in agreement with (Winton et al, 2008) who found in the study about " Improving documentation of endotracheal intubation in an adult emergency department, Emergency medicine Australasia" that the nurses improved documentation of endotracheal tube care after implementing the program.…”

Prospective observational study of emergent endotracheal intubation practice in the intensive care unit and emergency department of an Australian regional tertiary hospital

“…Regular teaching and competency assessments are required to ensure ongoing currency for all clinicians involved in emergent intubations of patients. Ongoing audit of clinical practice should occur and this might include the development of a hospital‐specific form to improve documentation of all intubations …”

Improving documentation in prehospital rapid sequence intubation: investigating the use of a dedicated airway registry form

“…The documentation of emergency intubations in hospital is poor despite the introduction of documentary pro forma and focused education programmes 2. Preanaesthesia assessments in the hospital environment are also often poor3 and small but statistically non-significant improvements have been attained using unified record-keeping documents 4.…”