Delirium Screening as a Predictor for Unplanned Extubations in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit

Abstract

Background: Pediatric delirium has been under recognized and undertreated due to a lack of screening tools and limited clinician familiarity with the disease. In the past ten years, there has been an emergence of new bedside instruments to evaluate patients for the presence of delirium in the intensive care setting without the need for consultation of child psychiatry. Unplanned extubations are a significant patient harm event in …