Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Ventilator associated pneumonia: incidence, profile and outcome in pediatric intensive care unit of tertiary care centre
... in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care ...referral unit for pediatric medical and surgical cases, however this excludes pediatric patients who are ...
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Long-Stay Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients: Outcome and Resource Utilization
... Long-Stay Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients: Outcome and Resource Utilization. Services[r] ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Characteristics of patients requiring non-invasive ventilation in pediatric intensive care unit
... This research was a descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study. The data were obtained from the medical record of patients who were applied NIV at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ...
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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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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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Admission Patterns and Outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Nepal
... Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is an important component of any tertiary care center. Approximately 4 million ICU admissions per year occur in the United States with mortality ...
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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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Original Article Toll-like receptors 2 and 9 gene polymorphisms in severe sepsis and septic shock: a single center study in the pediatric intensive care unit
... in pediatric patients with severe sepsis and septic ...Fifty-nine pediatric patients were admitted with severe sepsis/septic shock in the pediatric intensive care unit, and 59 ...
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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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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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Matters of Spirituality at the End of Life in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... our clinical experience suggests 2 general understand- ings. For some parents, faith refers to a set of beliefs that provide guidance and a context in which to find mean- ing. Seeking scriptural authority to assist in ...
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Prospective Evaluation of Propofol Anesthesia in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for Elective Oncology Procedures in Ambulatory and Hospitalized Children
... Invasive procedures that must be repeated over a patient’s course of therapy, such as bone marrow aspiration and lumbar puncture, are a necessary part of the management of childhood cancer. These pro- cedures are painful ...
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End-of-life care in a pediatric intensive care unit: the impact of the development of a palliative care unit
... (EOL) care. In pediatrics, EOL care has progressively improved, especially with the development of palliative care that provides support at home or in the general ...comprehensive care and ...
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Symptomatic and asymptomatic candidiasis in a pediatric intensive care unit
... Methods: This retrospective study included 67 patients from a 7-bed PICU in a tertiary care hospital that had Candida-positive cultures between April 2007 and July 2009. Demographic and clinical characteristics of ...
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Contribution of Heritable Disorders to Mortality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
... cause of death classification obtained from the Center for Health Statistics, Arkansas Department of Health was reviewed to determine the frequency with which the underlying heritable di[r] ...
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Pediatric risk of mortality III score in predicting mortality in children with altered sensorium in pediatric intensive care unit
... of independent variables (case mix) and the dependent variable (death) in the form of a mathematical equation. The equation is applied to the current intensive care unit statistics and a death rate ...
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