Smart Checklist Implementation for Pediatric Tracheal Intubations in the ICU- Multicenter Study

More than 20% of the critically ill children who require tracheal intubation suffer from adverse events. To reduce the adverse event risk, and optimize bedside team performance investigators will implement a digitized Smart Checklist that has three specific features: (1) prompts based on patient characteristics, (2) direct display of difficult airway status and airway information, and (3) high-risk warning based on predictive analytics.

This is a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial of PICU patients who are intubated across 6 participating hospitals to determine if the Smart Checklist reduces the incidence of adverse tracheal intubation associated events.

The primary objective of this study is to determine the clinical impact of the personalized, dynamic, adaptive Smart Checklist implementation on the occurrence of Adverse Airway Outcomes (AAOs) in the pediatric ICU. The secondary objective is to characterize work systems and processes that affect clinical impact of the digitized Smart Checklist.