Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant-led Cardiovascular Surgery Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Staffing Model.

To determine whether a nurse practitioner and physician assistant (NP/PA)-led rapid staffing. Model in the cardiac surgical intensive care unit (ICU) can optimize resource utilization without compromising safety or increasing hospital length of stay (LoS). Retrospective observational cohort study comparing before-and-after implementation of an NP/PA-led rapid recovery pathway. A large tertiary referral academic cardiac surgery ICU. There were 116 patients in the prerapid recovery cohort and 153 in the postimplementation rapid recovery phase. Low-risk cardiac surgery patients were selected for postoperative care by an NP/PA-led ICU staffing model. Mean hospital LoS in the prerapid recovery cohort was 5.7 days compared to 5.2 days in the rapid recovery pathway cohort ( Overall, implementation of an NP/PA-led postcardiac surgical ICU team (

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