Quality Improvement Initiative Reduces Response Times to PACU Emergencies

HONOLULU—A multidisciplinary quality improvement initiative between anesthesia and nursing has demonstrated the feasibility of reducing provider response times to emergencies in the PACU. The initiative—which comprised a combination of education, code-role identification, a standardized notification process for anesthesiologists and several mock code events—saw response times drop from more than nine to two minutes, an improvement the researchers said other institutions can