OBJECTIVE To evaluate the predictive value of the pediatric-modified Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, End-stage renal disease criteria for disease course severity in patients with or without acute kidney injury admitted to a PICU. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A 12-bed PICU at a tertiary referral center in Southern Brazil. PATIENTS All patients admitted to the study unit over a 1...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to describe the frequency, characteristics, and outcomes of children who require early unplanned admission to the PICU within 24 hours of hospitalization from the emergency department. METHODS This study was a retrospective audit of 24 months of prospectively collected medical emergency team records at a tertiary pediatric hospital in Canada. Our review id...

AIM To study the impact of vaccination critical illness due to H1N1pdm09, we compared the incidence and severity of H1N1pdm09 infection in Canada and France. METHODS We studied two national cohorts that included children with documented H1N1pdm09 infection, admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Canada and in France between October 1, 2009 and January 31, 2010. RESULTS Vaccin...

OBJECTIVE To analyze mortality and resource consumption in patients with long stays in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). DESIGN A retrospective, descriptive case series study. SCOPE Medical-surgical PICU in a third level hospital. PATIENTS Data were collected from patients with a stay of 28 days or more in PICU between 2006 and 2010. Of the 2118 patients assisted in this period, 83 ...

OBJECTIVE To report the outcome of children with life-threatening asthma (LTA) admitted to a university Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). METHODS Retrospective study between October 2002 and May 2010 was carried out. Every child with LTA and bronchospasm was included. RESULTS 30 admissions of 28 patients (13 M, 17 F) were identified which accounted for 3% of total PICU admissions (n = 1...

BACKGROUND Unplanned extubation (UE) is an unprecedented happening in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); which may lead to severe complications in patients. The risk factors of UE have been discussed but much details are still required in this regard. This study aimed to evaluate predisposing and risk factors of unplanned extubation in PICU. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients intubated in PICU...

OBJECTIVE To define the indications for tracheotomy in patients requiring prolonged intubation (>1 week) in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). DESIGN Retrospective chart review and follow-up telephone survey. SETTING A tertiary care center PICU. OUTCOME MEASURE Tracheotomy or extubation. PATIENTS All patients older than 30 days in the PICU intubated for longer than 1 week between...

OBJECTIVE To describe the current practice of pediatric airway management at referring hospitals and the associated adverse events compared to a receiving tertiary pediatric ICU. METHOD Retrospective chart and transport record review of all emergency critical care transports to our Pediatric ICU over 3 years. Data regarding tracheal intubation procedure, pre-defined adverse Tracheal Intubatio...

Introduction: Childhood cancer survival has shown considerable improvement exceeding 80%. Objective: to determine the risk factors for mortality in patients admitted intensive care (PICU) of Hospital de Clínicas Universidad Nacional Asunción, Paraguay. Patients and method: a retrospective review medical records oncology PICU from January 2014 December 2016 was performed. Results: Of 874 PICU, 1...

A retrospective study was performed in children (aged one month - 16 years) receiving HFNC to determine the frequency, efficacy and adverse effects of high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), from January December 2017. Treatment failure defined as clinical deterioration on such that mechanical ventilation (MV) required. Clinical parameters before after were ...