European Club on Pediatric Intensive Care (ECPIC)

Pediatric intensive care.

To provide optimal care, a veterinarian in a pediatric intensive care situation for a puppy or kitten should be familiar with normal and abnormal vital signs, nursing care and monitoring considerations, and probable diseases. This article is a brief discussion of the pediatric intensive care commonly required to treat puppies or kittens in emergency situations and for canine parvovirus type 2 e...

Highlights from the European Conference on Pediatric and Neonatal Cardiac Intensive Care

Pediatric intensive care: an overview.

This issue and the following issue (Volume 57, Number 2) of The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine are a compilation of papers dealing with diagnosis and management problems in pediatric intensive care. The number of contributors, as well as their varied backgrounds, provides a glimpse of the efforts involved in intensive care for children outside the newborn period. Pediatric intensive care ...

Determining pediatric intensive care unit quality indicators for measuring pediatric intensive care unit safety.

INTRODUCTION The measurement of quality and patient safety continues to gain increasing importance, as these measures are used for both healthcare improvement and accountability. Pediatric care, particularly that provided in pediatric intensive care units, is sufficiently different from adult care that specific metrics are required. BODY: Pediatric critical care requires specific measures for b...

Effect of Gastric Acid Suppressant Prophylaxis on Incidence of Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Background: Critically ill children admitted to pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) are at increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding due to stress related mucosal injury. Reducing gastric acid by acid suppressant medication is the accepted prophylaxis treatment, but there is not any definitive guideline for using prophylaxis in PICU patients. The present study aimed to assess the effect of P...