San Antonio—Anesthesia residents rarely documented all 12 items identified as essential for urgent/emergent intubations (UEIs) outside the operating room, according to a new study.
The retrospective study of 136 standardized electronic medical records (EMRs) documenting non-OR UEIs at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, between Jan. 1, 2016, and Feb. 28, 2017, found that only four of the notes (2.9%) included all 12 essential items.
“Although we have no formal data on incomplete UEI