Plug and Play: Mechanical Ventilation Utilization During Critical Care Transport of Patients with Advanced Airway

Abstract

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Healthcare has undergone significant regionalization over the past 20 years, necessitating high quality interhospital transport. Multiple studies have shown that the use of transport mechanical ventilators (MV) in lieu of manual ventilation during such transports provides more consistent ventilation and thus improved clinical outcomes. By analyzing MV use during interhospital transport of patients with advanced airways among diverse neonatal/pediatric/adult transport teams, we sought to describe current practice, identify quality benchmarks, and describe associated performance in relation to other …