OBJECTIVE Clinical Pharmacy Services (CPS) are considered standard of care and they are endorsed by the Joint Commission International, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. In Brazil, single experiences have been discreetly arising and the importance of these services to children and adolescents care has led to interesting results, but certainly are...

OBJECTIVE To characterize resources available for the care of critically ill and injured children in the United States. STUDY DESIGN In January through May 2004, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of medical directors of intensive care facilities for children. RESULTS Pediatric critical care medical directors from 257 of 337 eligible hospitals responded to the survey (response rate: 76%)...

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...

Background: This study aimed to assess Nursing Performance toward Enteral Feeding at Pediatric Critical Care Units. Subjects and methods: A descriptive was conducted pediatric critically care units (Pediatric Intensive Unit (PICU) – Neonatal Intensive (NICU) Emergency department) in the Children's Hospital affiliated Ain-Shams University Hospitals. Sampling: convenient sample composed o...

OBJECTIVES To describe pediatric severe asthma care, complications, and outcomes to plan for future prospective studies by the Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING : Pediatric intensive care units in the United States that submit administrative data to the Pediatric Health Information System. PATIENTS Children 1-18 yrs old trea...

PURPOSE The clinical features of seizures occurring in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) setting are not well characterized. Adult ICU studies reveal an incidence of seizures ranging from 0.8% to 3.3%, with vascular, metabolic abnormalities, and drug withdrawal being the most common etiologies. The objective of this study is to investigate the clinical characteristics of seizures in chil...

Rad-87 and RRa are new acoustic monitoring devices which can monitor the respiratory rate. To our knowledge, no studies have reported the RRa sensor used in pediatric patients after surgery. We succeeded in measuring the respiratory rate with the RRa sensor in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit(PICU). A 10-year-old boy, 14.5 kg in weight and 119.6 cm in height, with cerebral palsy, mental retard...

Asignificant proportion of critically ill children receive red blood cell (RBC) transfusions during their pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) stay (15% in the PICU of Sainte-Justine Hospital) (1). There are few data on the indications for packed RBC transfusions in critically ill children, and therefore one may ask on what evidence pediatric intensivists base their transfusion decisions. The c...

We aim to study the association between hyperglycemia and in-hospital outcomes among children with moderate and severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). This retrospective cohort study was conducted in a tertiary pediatric hospital between 2003 and 2013. All patients < 16 years old who presented to the Emergency Department within 24 hours of head injury with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ≤ 13 were inc...