Results Forty patients (6-17 years old) were enrolled. The most common theme in 88% (n=35) of drawings was patients depicting themselves in their drawings. Of those 35 patients, 14 depicted themselves with a smile on their face; 15 drew a frown, tears or an angry expression on their face; 6 patients drew themselves as expressionless. Patient monitors were depicted in 53% (n=21) of drawings. Fou...

Neonatal surgery encompasses not only the surgical details and techniques of correction of the congenital malformations, but also understanding of the neonatal physiology, the patho-physiology, the spectrum of anomalies, genetics, the diagnostic modalities and advances in technology and neonatal intensive care. In no other components of pediatric surgery, the pre-operative preparation and post-...

OBJECTIVE The project intended to describe the format of the Wrap-up, a unique multidisciplinary guided debriefing following a child's death. Specific feedback from pediatric residents was sought to assess the model. METHODS The Wrap-ups were timely (within 48 hours of a death), consistent (conducted after each pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) death), multidisciplinary (all care providers...

BACKGROUND Each year 55 000 children die in the United States, and most of these deaths occur in hospitals. The barriers and supportive behaviors in providing end-of-life care to children should be determined. OBJECTIVE To determine pediatric intensive care unit nurses' perceptions of sizes, frequencies, and magnitudes of selected obstacles and helpful behaviors in providing end-of-life care ...

Mouth care has a crucial role in preventing mucositis pediatric patients who admitted to intensive unit and undergoing mechanical ventilation. Aim: was aimed assess oral cavity for children ventilated at Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Subjects method: A descriptive research design used. The study were included 60 (>6 years age) PICU Tools: Data collection tools included: Socio-demographic chara...

1Department of Pediatric Metabolism and Nutrition, Diyarbakir Children’s Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey 2Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Diyarbakir Children’s Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey 3Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Diyarbakir Children’s Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey 4Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diyarbakır Children’s Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey 5Department of Pedia...

BACKGROUND Physiologic monitors generate high rates of alarms in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), yet few are actionable. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between a huddle-based intervention focused on reducing unnecessary alarms and the change in individual patients' alarm rates in the 24 hours after huddles. DESIGN Quasi-experimental study with concurrent and historical con...