Pediatric Intensive Care
Off-Hours Admission to Pediatric Intensive Care and Mortality
... Retrospective data meeting inclusion criteria from 243 292 admissions to 99 centers were obtained from the VPS, LLC database. One admission was ex- cluded owing to a negative entry for age, and 9099 were excluded owing ...
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Evaluation of sound pressure levels in a pediatric intensive care unit
... The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is defined as the sector of care for patients from 29 days to 14 or 18 years old, as a limit being defined according to the institution's routines ...
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Renal replacement therapy in adult and pediatric intensive care
... and pediatric intensive care developed with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) system by an expert group of French Intensive Care Society ...
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Circumstances Surrounding End of Life in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... Methods. We conducted a prospective, descriptive study based on a survey with the intensivist after every consecutive death during an 8-month period in a single multidisciplinary pediatric intensive ...
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Symptomatic and asymptomatic candidiasis in a pediatric intensive care unit
... 20 pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in 8 countries reported that fungi were the third most frequent infection agents, following bacteria (68%) and viruses (22%) ...
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Computerized clinical documentation system in the pediatric intensive care unit
... adult care setting include: 1) nursing time savings [1,2]; 2) improved decisions and productiv- ity of physicians [3,4] ; 3) decreased medication errors [5]; 4) decreased turn-around time for results [4]; 5) eas- ...
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Admission Patterns and Outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Nepal
... requiring intensive care ...that pediatric intensive care admissions vary within the same region of different countries and one should be aware of the prevalent conditions to develop ...
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Group Meetings in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... Work relationships among staff in a pediatric intensive care unit ( ICU ) are probably of critical importance to patient care, as well as to staff well-being.. Group dis- cussions were i[r] ...
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Risk Factors of Unplanned Extubation in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); which may lead to severe complications in ...the intensive care unit (ICU) settings ...Many pediatric intensive care units ...
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Prognostication and Certainty in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... health care providers. A health care provider’s estimate of mor- tality risk is an important element in prognostication and care delivery to patients admitted to a pediatric intensive ...
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Outcome of children with life-threatening asthma necessitating pediatric intensive care
... Asthma is a very common childhood condition world- wide and in Hong Kong. Acute asthmatic attacks cause significant morbidity and account for a significant num- ber of emergency department consultations and hospital ...
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Impact of Continuity in Nursing Care on Patient Outcomes in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Performance System database, the Medical/ Surgical Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Infection database, and the Safety Errors Reporting System ...332 ...
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Demographic variation of electrolyte imbalance in a tertiary care pediatric intensive care unit
... Conclusions: The present study showed high incidence of electrolyte abnormalities in patients admitted to pediatric intensive care unit. Though at times symptoms of electrolyte disorder is ...
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Alterations in End-of-Life Support in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... “limited care,” “with- drawal of care,” and “advance ...that care itself is never limited or with- drawn but the goals of care shift such that nonbeneficial treatment is limited or ...“advance ...
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Pediatric Intensive Care Sedation: Survey of Fellowship Training Programs
... The purpose of this study was to identify the patterns of use of sedative agents in pediatric critical care patients.. A questionnaire survey was mailed to 45 directors of Pediatric Crit[r] ...
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Monitoring Patients in Pediatric Intensive Care
... Daily evalua- tions of therapeutic and monitoring care modalities were accomplished with the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS) and daily assessments of severity of ill- ness[r] ...
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Matters of Spirituality at the End of Life in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... when care team members offer appropriate gestures of kindness and compassion and show their own human- ness, families often feel supported spiritually and find it easier to access sources of hope, trust, ...
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Nosocomial Infections in Pediatric Intensive Care Units in the United States
... In pediatric ICUs, bloodstream infec- tions were the most common nosocomial ...e39; intensive care units, pediatrics, epidemiology, cross infection, risk factors, bacteremia, pneumonia, urinary tract ...
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End-of-life care in a pediatric intensive care unit: the impact of the development of a palliative care unit
... child-centered care within the PICU helps achieve a dignified EOL in which the parents are also involved in the decision-making process and the care provided to their ...EOL care, as well as the ...
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Routine Chest Radiographs in Pediatric Intensive Care: A Prospective Study
... Most recommendations are that routine chest ra- diographs be obtained at least daily and following invasive procedures.’3 These recommendations are based on studies of routine chest radi[r] ...
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