What every intensivist should know about..Patient safety huddles in the ICU

Margo Hoyler; Michael S Niederman; Natalia Ivascu Girardi

doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2024.154788

What every intensivist should know about..Patient safety huddles in the ICU

J Crit Care. 2024 Aug:82:154788. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2024.154788. Epub 2024 Mar 29.

Authors

Margo Hoyler¹, Michael S Niederman², Natalia Ivascu Girardi³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
³ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.

PMID: 38553353
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2024.154788

Abstract

Patient safety huddles are brief, multidisciplinary conversations that focus on a specific topic or event. Huddles have been shown to improve communication among healthcare providers in a variety of settings, including the intensive care unit (ICU). This paper presents key features of patient safety huddles and describes the ways in which huddle techniques may be particularly relevant to the practice of critical care.

Keywords: Bacteremia; Communication; Critical care; Huddle; Patient safely.

MeSH terms

Communication
Critical Care / methods
Group Processes
Humans
Intensive Care Units* / organization & administration
Interdisciplinary Communication
Patient Care Team* / organization & administration
Patient Safety*