Enhancing Patient Safety During Intubation

Intubation is challenging in any emergency, but particularly so in EMS. Failure to achieve first pass success is associated with increased mortality in cardiac arrest and increased adverse events, such as hypoxia, hypotension, bradycardia, and death.
In this session, we’ll explore how we used the Model for Improvement to improve our system’s performance on the NEMSQA Airway 0-1 measure (Intubation First Pass Success without Hypoxia or Hypotension).
We’ll discuss the components of our bundle, how we measure it and how our performance on this measure improvement after implementation. We’ll include discussions of lessons learned during this process.