Table 1:
Criterion | Definition or adaptation* in PICU Warning Tool, or reason for exclusion | |
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Unchanged | High Mean Airway Pressure | Mean airway pressure sustained greater than 20 cm H20 for at least 2 hours |
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) | Any patient receiving veno-venous or veno-arterial ECMO (up to 24 hours post decannulation) | |
Adapted | Pulmonary Hypertension | Most recent nitric oxide gas value > 5 parts per million AND • Active pulmonary hypertension on problem list OR • Received medication indicating pulmonary hypertension in prior 24 hours |
Use of two vasoactive medications OR high dose single drug | Medication Administration Record within the last 6 hours of: • Any dose of phenylephrine, dobutamine, or vasopressin • Any two of the following: dopamine, epinephrine, or norepinephrine • Epinephrine or norepinephrine with dose>0.1 mcg/kg/min • Dopamine with dose >5 mcg/kg/min |
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Traumatic Brain Injury | • Sustained elevated intracranial pressure > 20 for most recent 2 hours • 3% saline or mannitol bolus in prior 6 hours for high ICP |
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PICU Initiated Renal Replacement Therapy | First 5 hours on CRRT and first 5 hours off of CRRT | |
Potassium >7.0 | Two consecutive potassium laboratory values >7 mmol/L (resulted with the last 24 hours) | |
pH<7.1 | Most recent pH laboratory value (resulted within the past 24 hours)<7.1 | |
Lactate>10 | Most recent lactate laboratory result >10 mmol/L | |
Added | Severe Cardiac Dysfunction | • Mixed venous saturation<60% without 2 consecutive values >70% within the last 24 hours OR • Milrinone infusion within the previous 6 hours |
Excluded | Stage 1 Hypoplastic Left Heart Repair in Past 24 hours | HLH patients not cared for in the study PICUs |
Recent life-threatening event requiring code team activation or cardiac arrest | No standardized EHR documentation of events | |
Intubation/Extubation of known difficult or critical airway | Difficult or critical airway is reliably captured at both institutions, intubation not documented until post procedure. | |
Provider Intuition | Concern on the part of an attending physician that a patient is high-risk regardless of criteria met cannot be captured in an automated fashion. | |
Anticipated tracheal intubation of known diagnosis of myocarditis | Tracheal intubations are only documented post procedure. |
Adaptations noted in italics