Critically ill children
Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness and Mortality in Critically Ill Children
... on critically ill children because they require timely treatment and specialized care, potentially making their outcomes more sensitive to ED pediatric ...
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Influence of nutritional status on clinical outcomes in critically ill children
... 60 critically ill children aged 1 month to 18 years admitted to PICU of tertiary care, teaching hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka over a study period of 12 ...All critically ill ...
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Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Knowledge Regarding Management of Critically Ill Children on Mechanical Ventilator among Staff Nurses in Government G.B. Pant Hospital, Srinagar Kashmir.
... Out of 50 study subjects, in pre test 24(48%) had poor knowledge, 22 (44%) had average knowledge, and only 4(8%) had good knowledge regarding management of critically ill children on mechanical ...
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Association between length of storage of red blood cell units and outcome of critically ill children: a prospective observational study
... that critically ill children receiving RBC units stored for 14 days or lon- ger are at greater risk of developing new or progressive ...in critically ill children is a novel and ...
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A study to evaluate serum free triiodothyronine levels as a predictive indicator of outcome in critically ill children
... in critically ill children are ...in children who will subsequently die and therefore more aggressive therapy may be warranted in such ...
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Stress hyperglycemia: clinical profile and outcome in critically ill children
... guidelines. Children with life threatening events, shock, respiratory distress, altered sensorium, history suggestive of poisoning, bites and injuries were considered as critically ill ...These ...
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Defining Risk for Iatrogenic Withdrawal in Critically Ill Children
... incomplete understanding of the reasons for pharmacodynamic variation in sedative response in critically ill children (Johnson et al., 2012; Vet, de Hoog, Tibboel, & de Wildt, 2011), and even ...
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Endothelial Cell Function and Dysfunction in Critically Ill Children
... Endothelial cells (ECs) line the lumen of the entire vascular system and actively regulate blood flow; maintain blood fluidity; control water, solute, and macromolecular transfer between blood and tissue; and modulate ...
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The predictive value of diaphragm ultrasound for weaning outcomes in critically ill children
... This paper is the first study to investigate the predictive value of diaphragm ultrasound for weaning outcomes in critically ill children. The findings of this study demon- strate that the DTF of ...
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The Factors Associated With High-Quality Communication for Critically Ill Children
... established rapport before their child ’ s admission to the PICU and how this may affect families ’ decision-making. Particularly with regard to end-of-life conversations, the rapport that fami- lies have with their ...
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Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness and Mortality in Critically Ill Children
... US children live ...often critically ill children present to hospitals with a low pediatric readiness score and whether presentation to these hospitals is associated with increased ...
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Clinical Profile and outcome of stress hyperglycemia in critically ill children
... This is to certify that dissertation entitled “ clinical profile and outcome of stress hyperglycemia in critically ill children” submitted by Dr .R. Diana Grace to the faculty of paediatrics , The ...
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Validity of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) in critically ill children
... all critically ill children is clinically useful, be- cause assessing awareness is important for increasing Table 4 Agreement between nurse and researcher RASS scores ( n = ...
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Prevalence of Retinal Hemorrhages in Critically Ill Children
... healthy children to provide a baseline incidence of ...suggest critically ill children are the appropriate study population because these are the cases in which serious in fl icted head injury ...
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Tolerance and Withdrawal From Prolonged Opioid Use in Critically Ill Children
... Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical J. Michael Dean, Carol Nicholson and for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Meert, Jerry Zimmerman, Joseph Carcillo, Christopher J. L. ...
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Vitamin A deficiency in critically ill children with sepsis
... in critically ill children with ...in children with sepsis who are admitted into the PICU, es- pecially children with severe sepsis and/or septic ...in children with ...
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Vitamin D Deficiency in Critically Ill Children
... in critically ill children in this prospective cohort ...cally ill children were more likely to report supplementing their children with vitamin D by using vitamins and/or ...
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Obesity and Mortality Risk in Critically Ill Children
... host immune response, illness severity), that are not captured by severity of illness scores. Moreover, from a public health standpoint, our data do not support any protective benefit to being mildly to moderately ...
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Red cell transfusions as an independent risk for mortality in critically ill children
... Both the Virtual PICU Systems database and our trans- fusion database contain prospectively maintained data, but the study hypothesis was conceived only after the in- formation was collected. The single center ...
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Disruption of the microbiota across multiple body sites in critically ill children
... Fig. 4 Temporal changes in the site-specific microbiota of PICU patients. a Temporal changes in the median Shannon diversity index of study subjects followed longitudinally during their PICU admission. All p values ...
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