Design and Deployment of a Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Surveillance System

Table 1

Counts and percentages of aggregate event, notifications, and cardiac arrest by care area.

Care area	Notifications ()	Events ()	Cardiac arrest ()
Clinic	42	35	0
	(1%)	(2%)	(0%)
Floor	1,030	512	9
	(34%)	(24%)	(3%)
Imaging-diagnostic	43	19	7
	(1%)	(1%)	(2%)
NICU	225	170	52
	(8%)	(8%)	(16%)
Non-children’s hospital	51	33	5
	(2%)	(2%)	(2%)
Other children’s hospital	50	40	8
	(2%)	(2%)	(3%)
PACU	113	85	3
	(4%)	(4%)	(1%)
PEDS-ED	365	315	64
	(12%)	(15%)	(20%)
PEDS-OR	84	82	26
	(3%)	(4%)	(8%)
PICU	983	854	143
	(33%)	(40%)	(45%)

% values are percent of column totals.