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Health care quality indicators and improvements to make in the prehospital care of adults exposed to carbon monoxide

Ferrés-Padró V, Solà Muñoz S, Jacob Rodríguez J, Membrado-Ibáñez S, Amigó Tadín M, Jiménez Fàbrega FX

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Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques SEM, Barcelona, Spain. Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain. Área de Urgencias, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain.

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Ferrés-Padró V, Solà Muñoz S, Jacob Rodríguez J, Membrado-Ibáñez S, Amigó Tadín M, Jiménez Fàbrega FX. Health care quality indicators and improvements to make in the prehospital care of adults exposed to carbon monoxide. Emergencias. 2019;31:304-10

Summary

Objective.

To describe health care quality indicators in cases of carbon monoxide (CO) exposure attended by prehospital services and to explore factors associated with the use of pulse CO-oximetry (SpCO) for the noninvasiveestimation of CO saturation of arterial blood.

Method.

Cohort study of patients exposed to CO and transported by advanced life support units of the Emergency Medical Services of Catalonia between January 2015 and December 2017. We selected 11 applicable quality indicators and used multivariate analysis to explore factors associated with the recording of SpCO.

Results.

We studied 1676 cases of CO exposure. SpCO was recorded in 1108 cases (66.1%). CO saturation exceeded 10% in 358 patients (32.3%). Adherence was deficient in 5 of the 11 applicable quality indicators. Multivariate analysis showed less use of pulse CO-oximetry when another toxic exposure was present (odds ratio [OR], 0.34; 95% CI, 0.11–

1.00) and when the first responder was from the advanced life support service (OR, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.31–0.59). SpCO was used more in the presence of a history of mental health problems (OR, 3.01; 95% CI,1.27–7.17), headache (OR, 2.13; 95% CI, 1.2–3.72), and along with use of oxygen therapy (OR, 10.33; 95% CI, 5.46–19.53).

Conclusion. Prehospital attendance of episodes of CO exposure is marked by failure to comply with some health care quality indicators. We detected factors associated with under use of SpCO as well as areas to target for improvement.

 

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