“Project PEEP” win at REaSoN Neonatal Conference 2021

The NICU team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire won this year’s Quality Improvement Session
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“Project PEEP” win at REaSoN Neonatal Conference 2021

The NICU team at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire won this year’s Quality Improvement Session
The project PEEP nurse team
The project PEEP nurse team

On International Women’s Equality Day, and every day, we celebrate women doing an amazing job in healthcare all over the world.

This year we want to shine a light on an all-female team making a difference to the babies in their care.

Embracing rapid change and development leading to “Project PEEP”

At University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire staff have been embracing a period of rapid change and development, with a new clinical lead and new consultants joining the team. Dr Nitesh Singh, who is one of the consultants, along with Dr Sarah Williamson (ST7), introduced a Quality Improvement (QI) Initiative. Both, medical and nursing staff, were divided into teams and challenged to complete a QI project.

Team Members

The team for “Project PEEP” consists of 6 enthusiastic interdisciplinary members, Advanced Nurse Practitioner Lucy Bradley who is leading the project alongside Dr Teim Eyo (ST2), Zara Grandison – Neonatal co-ordinator, Jo Jones – Neonatal sister, Jay Carter – Neonatal Sister and Yvonne Huskins – Practice Educator.

The team is passionate about reducing the incidence of Bronchopulmonary dysplasia within their level 3 neonatal unit, and we at Armstrong Medical were proud to support the team entering the competition at this year’s REaSoN Neonatal Conference.

Training nurses to use Armstrong Medical devices for respiratory care

Developing a preterm respiratory care practice bundle

Through successful implementation of QI methodology, the team has developed a preterm respiratory care practice bundle, and over a period of 4 “Plan-Do-Study-Act” cycles they were able to introduce a number of practice changes.

The team provided education and training in relation to factors which may influence BPD:

4 cycles v2
promoting the use of non-invasive ventilation
creating strategies to reduce the need for intubation in the delivery room through the use of Delivery Room CPAP (DRCPAP) and
facilitating the application of less invasive surfactant administration (LISA) through education and training in the technique

Diagram showing 4 cycles

Delivery Room CPAP

Each team member trained a group of staff of equivalent grading, which was supported by a 2-minute video tutorial filmed by the QI team featuring Jo. DRCPAP has quickly become an accepted and well embedded practice within the unit, with the QI team acting as champions, facilitators and problem solvers where necessary.

DRCPAP flowchart

Less invasive surfactant administration (LISA)

With the avoidance of intubation at delivery, LISA has become increasingly adopted and the unit has now performed LISA in excess of 80 times at UHCW, with the smallest baby to have received surfactant in this way weighing 635grams. The QI team believed a video laryngoscope would increase whole team confidence and skill at this technique and so successfully applied for and was granted charitable funds to purchase one. Training has been completed and the QI team anticipates the application of the practice bundle at smaller weights and gestations because of this.

Nurses working on a neonatal patient requiring respiratory care

Summary

As a result of the practice bundle, they have seen a reduction in delivery room intubations between the gestation 27-32 weeks from 70% in 2019 to 0% at time of analysis 2021. They have also seen the number of babies requiring oxygen at 28 days fall significantly from 32% to 17.6%, which they hope will positively influence their rates of BPD in the future.

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