A collaborative network of pediatric cardiac intensive care teams significantly decreased rates of in-hospital cardiac arrest over 18 months using a low-technology prevention practice bundle, independent of secular trends, data show.
In a quality improvement study including 31 hospitals, researchers found that the 15 cardiac ICUs implementing the cardiac arrest prevention (CAP) bundle saw a 30% relative reduction in aggregate cardiac arrest rate after implementation compared with 16 control hospitals.
The five-element bundle included mandatory twice-daily multidisciplinary “safety huddles”