A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide in the PICU

Inhaled nitric oxide use in newborns.

Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) is a pulmonary vasodilator that plays a major role in regulating vascular muscle tone. It has emerged as a treatment for hypoxemic respiratory failure in newly born infants that is associated with persistent high pulmonary vascular pressure and resultant right-to-left shunting of blood (persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn). Current evidence shows that iNO...

Multidisciplinary quality improvement initiative to reduce ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis in the PICU.

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that successful implementation of a care bundle designed to prevent nosocomial airway infection will be associated with decreased incidence of ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis. DESIGN Prospective pre- and post interventional. SETTING PICU at an academic medical center PATIENTS : All patients admitted to the PICU who received invasive mechanical vent...

Neonatal Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Reducing Variation in the Use of Inhaled Nitric Oxide abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Decreasing practice variation and following clinical guidelines improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. Inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) is an effective but expensive treatment of pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure in patients with congenital or acquired heart disease. Our objective was to implement standardized initiation and weaning guidelines for iNO usage ...