Project Console: a quality improvement initiative for neonatal abstinence syndrome in a children's hospital level IV neonatal intensive care unit.
BMJ Open Qual
; 10(2)2021 05.
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| ID: mdl-33941537
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To improve care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome.DESIGN:
Infants with a gestational age of ≥35 weeks with prenatal opioid exposure were eligible for our quality improvement initiative. Interventions in our Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles included physician consensus, re-emphasis on non-pharmacological treatment, the Eat Sleep Console method to measure functional impairment, morphine as needed, clonidine and alternative soothing methods for parental unavailability (volunteer cuddlers and automated sleeper beds). Pre-intervention and post-intervention outcomes were compared.RESULTS:
Length of stay decreased from 31.8 to 10.5 days (p<0.0001) without an increase in readmissions. Composite pharmacotherapy exposure days decreased from 28.7 to 5.5 (p<0.0001). This included reductions in both morphine exposure days (p<0.0001) and clonidine exposure days (p=0.01). Fewer infants required pharmacotherapy (p=0.02).CONCLUSIONS:
Our study demonstrates how a comprehensive initiative can improve care for infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome in an open-bay or a high-acuity neonatal intensive care unit when rooming-in is not available or other comorbidities are present.Palavras-chave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Síndrome de Abstinência Neonatal
Limite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article