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A Bedside Checklist Kept More Breathing Tubes in Place
A five-year intensive-care initiative paired nurse education and risk review with a sustained reduction in unplanned extubations.
Summary
A five-year intensive-care initiative paired nurse education and risk review with a sustained reduction in unplanned extubations.
A nurse-led quality-improvement effort in St. Joseph's Health's 28-bed medical intensive-care unit followed 343 unplanned extubations. After the rate peaked at 2.0 per 100 ventilator days in late 2018, the unit reports it remained below 0.7 through 2023, compared with a stated 1.06 benchmark; 82 patients required reintubation. This is a long-running single-unit improvement report, not a randomized trial.
Why it matters
A five-year intensive-care initiative paired nurse education and risk review with a sustained reduction in unplanned extubations.
Limits and context
- This is a long-running single-unit improvement report, not a randomized trial.
Key claims
A five-year intensive-care initiative paired nurse education and risk review with a sustained reduction in unplanned extubations.
Qualification: This is a long-running single-unit improvement report, not a randomized trial.
Evidence: source-2026-08-01-005
Sources
- St. Joseph's Health via Newswise: Nurse-led unplanned-extubation initiativeSt. Joseph's Health via Newswise · secondary reporting
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