PICU admission
Executive Summary: Criteria for Critical Care of Infants and Children: PICU Admission, Discharge, and Triage Practice Statement and Levels of Care Guidance
... the PICU. Outcome and quality research related to admission, transfer, and discharge criteria as well as literature regarding PICU levels of care to include volume, staf fi ng, and structure were ...
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Effectiveness of predicting in-hospital mortality in critically ill children by assessing blood lactate levels at admission
... either admission lactate or peak lactate concentration is associated with mortality in adults ...upon admission to PICU is predictive of mortality, independent of ...at PICU admission ...
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Death and Emergency Readmission of Infants Discharged After Interventions for Congenital Heart Disease: A National Study of 7643 Infants to Inform Service Improvement.
... All children who underwent their fi rst interventional catheterization or cardiac surgery when younger than 1 year in the United Kingdom between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2010 were identi fi ed in NCHDA (overseas ...
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Redefining Success in the PICU: New Patient Populations Shift Targets of Care
... of PICU admission if they become acutely ill, along with extensive medical needs that continue long after the illness that brings them to the PICU is ...long-stay PICU admissions with ...
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The Association of Vitamin D Status With Pediatric Critical Illness
... Three hundred eighty-nine critically ill children were enrolled in the AIP study. For the substudy, 25(OH)D measure- ments were performed on 326 study participants because permission was declined from 1 of the original ...
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Protocol for a longitudinal qualitative study: survivors of childhood critical illness exploring long term psychosocial well being and needs—The SCETCH Project
... Childhood critical illness survivors will be identi fi ed and recruited through a sequential sampling strategy that incorporates theoretical and snowball sampling. Theoretical sampling is de fi ned by Emerson (ref. 43 , ...
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Initial Hemodynamic Profiles of Children with Dengue Shock Syndrome in Referral Settings
... to PICU during the period of the study and 97 ...their PICU admissions. Patients who have clinical signs of shock upon PICU arrivals were classified into “group 1” and patients with no clinical signs ...
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Assessment of pattern and treatment outcome of patients admitted to pediatric intensive care unit, Ayder Referral Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2015
... 62.99 ± 60.94 months, with F:M ratio of 1:1.2. Overall (from infectious and non-infectious) the most commonly affected systems were respiratory (90/400 pts., 22.5%) and central nervous system (83/400 pts., 20.75%). Most ...
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Influence of supplemental parenteral nutrition approach on nosocomial infection in pediatric intensive care unit of Emergency Department: a retrospective study
... in PICU of Emergency Department which enrolled non-surgical pa- tients in a tertiary hospital in Wuhan, ...on admission to the hospital PICU of Emergency Department for longer than 48 h and could ...
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Red cell transfusions as an independent risk for mortality in critically ill children
... to PICU admission, in order to capture all the intra-operative and emergency room transfusions, as well as during the PICU ...the PICU course were considered for the total ...
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Anemia at pediatric intensive care unit discharge: prevalence and risk markers
... of PICU admission developed two or more organ dysfunctions during PICU stay or if he/she died; progressive MODS was diagnosed if a patient who already had MODS at PICU admission ...
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Pediatric Index of Mortality – 2 (PIM-2) Score as Predictor of Mortality In PICU
... of admission to PICU using a pretested ...to PICU was documented and not the condition at arrival to the emergency ...at PICU. Arterial blood gas analysis was done within one hour of ...
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The age of blood in pediatric intensive care units (ABC PICU): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... days, PICU length of stay, and PICU-free days, will be ana- lyzed using either parametric procedures (independent t test) or non-parametric procedures (Wilcoxon Rank ...
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Parents' reflections on the quality of dying and death of their children in the PICU
... Parents also discussed how they thought or felt their child’s pain and comfort were controlled for and they marked on the QODD that their child’s pain and symptoms were controlled most of the time. This will be good news ...
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Parental stress: a neglected entity
... Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the alteration or loss of the parental role, including physical separation, limited opportunities to care for the child, and no longer being the independent, primary ...
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Pediatric admissions that include intensive care: a population based study
... hospital admission but those who do are likely to suffer high morbidity and mortality rates and repre- sent a disproportionate burden on pediatric services ...
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Pediatric risk of Mortality III (PRISMIII) score as a predictor of mortality in PICU, Institute of Child Health and Hospital for Children, Egmore
... A new pediatric physiology based score for mortality risk, Pediatric Risk of Mortality III (PRISM III) has been developed. This was developed involving 32 PICUs. Physiological data included the most abnormal values from ...
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Invasive fungal disease in PICU: epidemiology and risk factors
... The frequency and severity of IFI in children has increased steadily during the past 20 years. This is due to the higher prevalence of susceptible hosts who are kept alive with more aggressive therapy (cytotoxic, immuno- ...
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Plasma in the PICU: why and when should we transfuse?
... A paediatric retrospective study evaluated the associ- ation between plasma and mortality in 380 children with acute lung injury (ALI) [27]. The authors showed a sig- nificant increase in mortality (8%) for each ml/kg of ...
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A Saudi Family Making End-of-Life Decisions in the PICU
... Finally, let us imagine that the father explains all of this to the PICU attending in the private meeting. He reminds the attending that he knows his wife and their culture better than do the team of US ...
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