Team Stress and Adverse Events during Neonatal Tracheal Intubations: A Report from NEAR4NEOS

Objective To examine the association between team stress level and adverse tracheal intubation (TI)-associated events during neonatal intubations. Study Design TIs from 10 academic neonatal intensive care units were analyzed. Team stress level was rated immediately after TI using a 7-point Likert scale (1 = high stress). Associations among team stress, adverse TI-associated events, and TI characteristics were evaluated. Result In this study, 208 of 2,009 TIs (10%) had high stress levels (score  Conclusion High team stress levels during TI were more frequently reported among TIs with adverse events.