Situation Awareness Incorporating Multidisciplinary Teams Reduce Arrests In the Pediatric ICU

As nearly 95% of pediatric IHCAs occur in PICUs, we developed an interventional cardiac arrest prevention bundle targeted to PICU healthcare providers. In a previous single center trial, the use of the SAMURAI PICU bundle improved early identification of high-risk patients, increased shared situation awareness, and supported risk mitigation plans, leading to a \>50% decrease in IHCA events requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Early identification occurs via the PICU Warning Tool, an automated, electronic medical record clinical decision support tool that provides a non-interruptive notification to care providers of high-risk patients. This prediction tool prompts a bedside huddle to ensure shared situation awareness and development of a mitigation plan. This novel approach of emphasizing shared situation awareness through automated clinical decision support and mitigation of risk has demonstrated reduction in CPR events and mortality within the PICU clinical environment. This study employs a user-centered design model to adapt, implement, and assess the feasibility and effectiveness of SAMURAI PICU at other pediatric institutions. The hypothesis is that identification of PICU patients at high risk for IHCA through the use of the PICU Warning Tool and integration of this high-risk status in daily safety huddles will lead to improved shared situation awareness and subsequent reduction in CPR events at participating institutions. This approach will utilize a five-center pragmatic prospective Hybrid Type 1 effectiveness-implementation study leveraging the existing infrastructure of Pediatric Resuscitation Quality Collaborative (pediRES-Q).