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Quality improvement: prevention of cardiac arrest in children with heart disease on the paediatric intensive care unit

  • By

  • Mark James Russell

  • Alison Jones

  • Susan Burlton

  • Rachael Morrison

  • David Ellis

  • Tim Jones

  • Natasha Khan

  • Hari Krishnan

  • Phil Botha

  • July 14, 2026

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    A comprehensive quality improvement programme reduced cardiac arrest rates in pediatric cardiac intensive care units in North America.

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    In a UK implementation, the cardiac arrest prevention bundle led to a 30% reduction in cardiac arrest rates among pediatric patients post-surgery.

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    The crude cardiac arrest rate decreased from 6.2% to 4.4% after the intervention in 1113 patients with primary cardiac diagnoses.

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    Risk adjustment methodologies were essential for monitoring cardiac arrest rates and showed reasonable correlation with existing prediction algorithms.

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    Further research is needed to understand the lack of improvement in cardiac medical admissions despite the successful implementation in surgical patients.

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Quality improvement: prevention of cardiac arrest in children with heart disease on the paediatric intensive care unit

  • by Mark James Russell, Alison Jones, Susan Burlton, Rachael Morrison, David Ellis, Tim Jones, Natasha Khan, Hari Krishnan, Phil Botha

  • July 14, 2026

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