Key result
Parents overestimate key milestone timelines in pediatric cardiac fast-track surgery.
Why the study?
Parents and caregivers' perceptions of the fast-track surgery process for pediatric cardiac procedures were not well understood, limiting opportunities to improve care and education.
Observational
No
Parents and caregivers of pediatric cardiac surgery patients overestimate fast-track milestone times, highlighting a need for improved preoperative education to enhance involvement in care.
Parental overestimation of fast-track milestones signals education gaps; leaves open whether preoperative counseling improves involvement or outcomes in low-complexity pediatric cardiac surgery.
This project investigated parents' and caregivers' perceptions of the fast-track surgery process with regard to their child's surgical procedure and hospital stay. The goal of this project was to review and improve the fast-track process. Participants were parents/caregivers of pediatric patients (ie, younger than 18 years) who had undergone a low-complexity cardiac surgical procedure on a fast-track basis at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, United Kingdom, between January 2006 and January 2008. Findings suggest that parents/caregivers overestimate the time it takes for several key milestones in the fast-track process to occur and that there is a need for preoperative and preadmission education that will allow parents/caregivers to be more involved in their child's care.
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Jawahar et al. (2009) conducted an observational in Pediatric cardiac fast-track surgery. Fast-track surgery process was evaluated on Parents' and caregivers' perceptions of the fast-track surgery process and hospital stay. Parents and caregivers overestimate the time required for key milestones in the pediatric cardiac fast-track surgery process, indicating a need for better preoperative education.
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