Pediatric Difficult Intubation (PeDI) Registry group is a multicenter organization dedicated to assessing, understanding and improving the outcomes of children with Difficult Direct Laryngoscopy (DDL) to facilitate benchmarking, quality improvement and research. The objectives of the group are (1) to provide site specific and aggregate data back to sites on DDL events and (2) to augment local quality improvement efforts and (3) to facilitate research studies related to DDL.
“We make airway management safer”
Our Beginning
The PeDI collaborative started as a special interest group in the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and began with three sites. After two years of consensus building and defining terms data collection began in 2012. The collaborative has grown to over 30 international sites.
“Impactful research and Quality Improvement starts with a seed.”
Our Published Studies have laid the groundwork for our current intiatives which includes a QI intiative and a prospective randomized trial comparing VL to DL in children with difficult airways.
Our Mission
To Improve Airway Management in Children
1 in 85
Incidence of Cardiac Arrest
3%
First Attempt Success Rate Direct Laryngoscopy... "just say no"
55%
First Attempt Success Rate Indirect Laryngoscopy
With 35 sites and counting we are accumulating data from all over the world about intubation in children.
Get Involved
Tracheal Intubation remains a significant cause of morbidity & mortality in children. Join us and help us make routine, emergent and difficult airway management safer for all children!
