Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 2: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Selection, Training and Mentoring of Cardiac Surgeons....Pages 9-38
Improving Pediatric Cardiac Care with Continuous Quality Improvement Methods and Tools....Pages 39-50
Quality Improvement in Pediatric Cardiology: The National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative....Pages 51-67
Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation....Pages 69-90
The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and Operating Room Continuum: Quality and Safety in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit....Pages 91-104
Professional Formation of Physicians Focused on Improving Care....Pages 105-121
Surgical Volume and Outcome Relationship in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery....Pages 123-133
The Pediatric Perioperative Cardiac Arrest (POCA) Registry....Pages 135-143
Reporting in Pediatric Resuscitation: Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation Registry....Pages 145-151
Addressing Nutrition and Growth in Children with Congenital Heart Disease....Pages 153-163
Patients as Observers and Reporters in Support of Systems and Patient Safety....Pages 165-184
Failure to Rescue and Failure to Perceive in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: Lessons Learned from Aviation....Pages 185-195
Quality Improvement in Noninvasive Imaging: Present and Future Initiatives....Pages 197-207
Improving Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiology....Pages 209-215
The Impact of Continuous Quality Improvement on Pediatric Cardiac Surgery....Pages 217-228
Leadership and Quality Improvement....Pages 229-237
The Role of the Federal Government in the Improvement of Healthcare Quality and Reduction of Costs in the United States....Pages 239-242
Lessons Learned from the Public Inquiry into Children’s Heart Surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and the English Safe and Sustainable Cardiac Review....Pages 243-259
Lean in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit....Pages 261-274
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Local Improvement Teams....Pages 275-284
Implementation Science—The Next Frontier....Pages 285-292
Leadership, Surgeon Well-Being, and Other Non-technical Aspects of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery....Pages 293-306
Front Matter....Pages 307-307
Quality and Safety in a Children’s Hospital....Pages 309-319
The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Quality and Safety Journey: Making Safety First and Making It Last....Pages 321-329
Resilience and Systems Engineering....Pages 331-340
Measuring and Assessing Adverse Medical Events....Pages 341-348
The Role of Communication and Patient Handovers in Pediatric Cardiac Care Centers....Pages 349-354
The Role of Technology and Medical Devices in Enhancing Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Outcomes....Pages 355-365
Human Factors and Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery....Pages 367-376
Information Management and Hospital Enterprise Information Systems....Pages 377-385
Towards Effective Data Utilization in Congenital Cardiac Critical Care....Pages 387-395
Clinical Decision Making....Pages 397-409
Design of Cardiac Surgery Operating Rooms and the Impact of the Built Environment....Pages 411-424
Simulation-Based Training to Enhance Patient Safety in Pediatric Cardiovascular Care....Pages 425-439
Epilogue –A Vision for the Future....Pages 441-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-456