Quality Improvement Standards for the Treatment of Pediatric Empyema

G Peter Feola; Mark J Hogan; Kevin M Baskin; Anne Marie Cahill; Bairbre L Connolly; John J Crowley; James A Charles; Manraj K S Heran; Francis E Marshalleck; Sergio Sierre; Richard B Towbin; T Gregory Walker; James E Silberzweig; Michael Censullo; Sean R Dariushnia; Joseph J Gemmete; Jeffrey L Weinstein; Boris Nikolic

doi:10.1016/j.jvir.2018.04.027

Quality Improvement Standards for the Treatment of Pediatric Empyema

J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2018 Oct;29(10):1415-1422. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2018.04.027. Epub 2018 Sep 6.

Authors

G Peter Feola¹, Mark J Hogan², Kevin M Baskin³, Anne Marie Cahill⁴, Bairbre L Connolly⁵, John J Crowley⁶, James A Charles⁷, Manraj K S Heran⁸, Francis E Marshalleck⁹, Sergio Sierre¹⁰, Richard B Towbin¹¹, T Gregory Walker¹², James E Silberzweig¹³, Michael Censullo¹⁴, Sean R Dariushnia¹⁵, Joseph J Gemmete¹⁶, Jeffrey L Weinstein¹⁷, Boris Nikolic¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Interventional Radiology, Primary Children's Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Electronic address: g.feola@imail.org.
² Section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
³ Advanced Interventional Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Department of Interventional Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Center for Image Guided Therapy, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Clinical Imaging Department (Radiology), Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
⁸ Department of Radiology, British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁹ Radiology and Imaging Department, Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana.
¹⁰ Department of Interventional Radiology, Hospital de Pediatría J.P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona.
¹² Division of Interventional Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹³ Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York.
¹⁴ University Radiology, Rocky Hill, New Jersey.
¹⁵ Department of Interventional Radiology and Image-Guided Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
¹⁶ Department of Radiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
¹⁷ Department of Radiology, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
¹⁸ Department of Radiology, Stratton Medical Center, Albany, New York.

PMID: 30197257
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2018.04.027

No abstract available

Publication types

Practice Guideline
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Chest Tubes / standards
Child, Preschool
Consensus
Delphi Technique
Empyema, Pleural / diagnostic imaging
Empyema, Pleural / therapy*
Fibrinolytic Agents / administration & dosage*
Humans
Infant
Intubation, Intratracheal / instrumentation
Intubation, Intratracheal / standards*
Pediatrics / education
Pediatrics / standards*
Quality Improvement / standards*
Quality Indicators, Health Care / standards*
Radiography, Interventional / standards*
Radiology, Interventional / education
Radiology, Interventional / standards*
Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted / standards*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Fibrinolytic Agents