Ventilator Weaning Clinical Pathway — CICU
Ventilator Weaning Clinical Pathway — CICU
Goals
To optimize the management and weaning of conventional mechanical ventilation for children in the CICU with acute respiratory failure and reduce unintended variability in provider approaches to weaning.
Metrics
Increase
- Frequency of assessment of child readiness to wean
- Rate of ventilator weaning
- Proportion of children extubated before noon
Decrease
- Ventilator days/hours
- CICU length of stay
Maintain
- Rate of reintubation (without increase)