Key result
Advanced critical care practitioners performed central venous cannulation, patient transfers, and intubation with safety profiles comparable to published UK literature.
Why the study?
Does procedure performance by advanced critical care practitioners maintain safety in critically ill patients?
Observational
Does procedure performance by advanced critical care practitioners maintain safety in critically ill patients?
Advanced critical care practitioners can safely perform key critical care procedures with outcomes comparable to published literature.
Supports advanced practitioner procedural roles in critical care; leaves open need for prospective validation before practice change.
Advanced critical care practitioners are a new and growing component of the critical care multidisciplinary team in the United Kingdom. This audit considers the safety profile of advanced critical care practitioners in the provision of central venous catheterisation and transfer of ventilated critical care patients without direct supervision and supervised drug assisted intubation of critically ill patients. The audit showed that advanced critical care practitioners can perform central venous cannulation, transfer of critically ill ventilated patients and intubation with parity to published UK literature.
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Denton et al. (2018) conducted an observational in Critically ill patients. Care by advanced critical care practitioners vs. Published UK literature was evaluated on Safety profile of central venous catheterisation, transfer of ventilated patients, and supervised intubation. Advanced critical care practitioners performed central venous cannulation, patient transfers, and intubation with safety profiles comparable to published UK literature.
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