Patient Safety Movement. Airway safety panel webinar: Speaking up and getting started (28 August 2020)

Summary

Although airway safety is known to be one of the key components in safe care, thousands of patients lose their lives each year to poor airway management and unplanned extubations.

In this Patient Safety Movement webinar, the team discusses starting an unplanned extubation project without buy-in from others, multi-institutional collaboration, pushback from leaders, colleagues, or other organisations, the future of interventions, clinicians who have experience with unplanned extubations as key advocates, and cross-checking pediatric and adult safety efforts.

The panel ends with Drew Hughes’ story and the team emphasises taking a moment to ground yourself in your practice and the importance of speaking up when you think the patient is at risk.