Post on 29-Mar-2015
THE CODE STEMI PROJECT: Winning the Race
CODE STEMI: The
PinnacleHealth
Experience
Donald C. Durbeck, MD., FACC
Baseline Performance
Evidence Based Approach
Bradley EH, Curry LA, Webster TR, et al. Achieving Rapid Door-to-Balloon Times: How Top Hospitals Improve Complex Clinical Systems. Circulation 2006;113:1079-85.
Racing Theme
Create a Task Force
• Senior Administration Support
• Key Stakeholders
• Weekly Meetings
• Dashboard
• Physician Champion
• Nurse Champion
• Quarterly User’s Meeting
Process Map
Data Drives Us Initiated by ED nurse
Forms kept in bin in cardiac bay
Clip-on digital clocks placed on clipboard
Form, clipboard, and clocks travel with patient to the cath lab
Cath Lab faxes completed form
Performance Improvement confirms time with scanned medical record and enters into data base
Immediate Feedback
EARLY CASES
Immediate Feedback
RECENT CASES
Immediate Feedback
Be transparent, list names
Bar graphs and Calendar feedback updated within one working day of case
Both are emailed to all members of the project
Assign follow-up tasks
Posted for front-line staff
Ensure EMS providers also receive feedback
Door to EKG
Pre-Hospital EKG
Triage Nurse in Waiting Room 11a – 11p
Triage Protocol
Dedicated bay for EKG
Hand Deliver EKG to ED Physician
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EKG to Lab Activation
ED Physician Activates Code Stemi
Activate using Pre-hospital EKG when available
minutes
Activation to Arrival in Lab
CODE STEMI Team
One Call Activation using Central Page Operator
Cell Phones vs. Pagers
Scripted Education
Prep Patient – Gown, 2 IV sites
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CODE STEMI Team
SecuritySecurity
Nursing Nursing SupervisorSupervisor
Performance Performance ImprovementImprovement
ER and Cath Lab Personnel
Scripted Education
PROCEDURE FOR EMERGENCY CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION
• Your physician believes you are having a heart attack. A heart attack occurs when an artery supplying the heart muscle becomes blocked with a blood clot. A heart attack can lead to permanent heart damage and represents a risk to your life. When treating a heart attack, time is of the essence. It is believed that if the clogged artery can be opened, the damage can be lessened and your risk of disability and death may be reduced.
• Your physician is proposing that you have a procedure called a cardiac catheterization. The goal of this procedure is to identify which artery of your heart is causing the attack. It is performed by a specially trained cardiologist. The procedure is done by placing a tube in an artery in your leg under local anesthesia. Dye is injected into to the arteries of your heart using x-rays. The discomfort from the procedure is generally minor. You will be given sedation as necessary. The cardiologist will attempt to identify the artery with a blood clot and re-establish blood flow by placing a small metal tube called a stent into the artery. You will receive medications to thin your blood…….
INTERVENTIONALIST OBTAINS CONSENT
Arrival to Device Time
Room ready during off hours
2 of 3 on call must be within 20 minutes
All expected to be ready in 30 minutes
Send patient as soon as 1 cath lab member in lab & interventionalist on site
Intervene on culprit artery first
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Time to PCI
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Door to EKG EKG to Lab Activation Activation to Lab Lab to Balloon
Analysis of Missed Opportunities
Follow up missed opportunities ASAP
Interview staff involved in case
Follow all leads
Take results of investigation to weekly task force meeting
Keep running list of reason for misses
Obtain necessary documentation for patient centered reason for delays
Patient Related Delays, excluded
Required Resuscitation
Patient did not give consent
Needed CT Scan to rule out dissection
System Delays, not excluded
• 99 minutes (Door to EKG = 30 min) - Known COPD smoker arrived via EMS with back pain and SOB. Symptoms improved with breathing treatment in ambulance
• 24 minutes -3rd STEMI in a row on a Sunday.
• 112 minutes (EKG to Activation = 40 min) - 1st EKG ST wave abnormality, hesitation to activate as it may have looked like pericarditis
• 103 minutes (Door to EKG = 40 min) – Female c/o bilateral arm numbness, mild SOB, dizzy
• 95 minutes (Activation to Arrival = 50 min) – Cardiologist saw patient in ED before activating the interventionalist.
Data Accuracy
• Abstractor’s send list of missed opportunities at end of month to compare with our on-going list
• Use QNET for resolution
• Prior to quarterly submission to Joint Commission vendor, run final list of misses to ensure “mets”/”not mets” are coded correctly
Success
HH ED STEMI & ACUTE MI CASE REVIEW, NON TRANSFERS
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TIME TO PCI XMR Chart
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UCL MEAN LCL
Patient Outcomes 2006
PCI is less than 120 minutes
7%4%
89%
D/C Alive, Not toHome
In-House Mortality
D/C Alive, to Home
PCI is greater than 120 minutes
17%
8%
75%
D/C Alive, Not toHome
In-House Mortality
D/C Alive, to Home
STEMI* In-Patient Mortality Rate
IN HOUSE MORTALITYHARRISBURG HOSPITAL ED STEMI WITH PCI, NON TRANSFERS
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12%
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* Of patients included in Primary PCI Joint Commission Measure.
ALL AMI In-Patient Mortality
IN HOUSE MORTALITYHARRISBURG HOSPITAL ALL AMI IN-PATIENT MORTALITY RATE
0.0%
2.0%
4.0%
6.0%
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12.0%
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Program Expansion
• In-Patient CODE STEMI using Rapid Response Team
• Transfer Patients from within the PinnacleHealth system
• Transfer Patients from neighboring institutions
• Transfer Center
• Helicopter services
QUESTIONS?