The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between level knowledge and biosafety practices health personnel Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Trujillo Regional Teaching Hospital(HRDT). research is descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional. sample universe consisted 20 workers including doctors, nurses Nursing technicians belonging Hospital; in whom Biosafety Knowledge Qu...

Shock is one of the most frequently diagnosed, yet poorly understood disorders in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). The very definition of what constellation of physical signs and symptoms that comprise shock remains controversial, in part due to the vast array of disorders that cause shock in critically ill and injured children. Early management and reversal of the shock state is assoc...

Abstract Background Globally, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) admissions are amongst the most expensive. In low middle-income countries, out of pocket expenditure (OOP) constitutes a major portion total expenditure. This makes it important to gain insights into cost pediatric intensive care. We undertook this study calculate health system and incurred per patient during PICU stay. Methods ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of a large, multicenter cohort of pediatric medical emergency team (MET) events occurring in US hospitals reported to the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation registry. METHODS We analyzed consecutive pediatric (<18 years) MET events reported to the registry from January 2006 to February 2012. RES...

Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) physicians need better decision support tools for finding and exploring similar patients to a given patient-of-interest. Recently, unsupervised machine learning methods have been shown to be effective at generating similarity scores between patients based on temporal physiological data. In this paper, we present Sim•TwentyFive, an interactive visualization d...

Background. Acute respiratory viral infections (ARVI) are a common public health problem with a significant global health care burden. There is no comprehensive data on which viral pathogen or pathogens are associated with the highest severity in children with ARVI requiring intensive care. We characterized the severity of critical illness secondary to ARVI in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (P...

AIM To study the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression in parents three months after pediatric intensive care treatment of their child and examine if peritraumatic dissocation and coping styles are related to these mental health problems. METHODS This is a prospective cohort study and included parents of children unexpectedly admitted to the Pediatric Inte...

ID: 172 Parents' Reflections on the Quality of the Dying and Death of Their Children in Pediatric Intensive Care Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Diane Yorke Presenting Author: Diane Yorke Address: 201 Bennington Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27516 United States Ph: 919-929-2476 Fax: 919-843-9969 Email: [email protected] Institution: UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing Abstract Inf...

1Consultant Neonatologist, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Department, Latifa Women & Children Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, UAE 2Consultant Neonatologist and Head of Pediatric Department & Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Latifa Women & Children Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, UAE 3Specialist Senior Registrar, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Department, Latifa Women & Childr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to evaluate the etiology of hospital-acquired hyponatremia (HAH) and its effects on morbidity and mortality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) patients. DESIGN This study design was a prospective observational case-control study. SETTING this study was conducted at tertiary care PICU. MATERIALS AND METHODS All consecutive cases admitted wi...