120. Genetic Polymorphisms and Risk of Infectious Wheezing in Pediatric Age Susanna Esposito, MD; Valentina Ierardi,; Cristina Daleno,; Alessia Scala,; Leonardo Terranova,; Claudia Tagliabue,; Walter Peves Rios,; Claudio Pelucchi,; Nicola Principi,; Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Univ Milan, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy; Pediatric Highly Intensi...

OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to determine the impact of family presence during PICU rounds on family satisfaction, resident teaching, and length of rounds and to assess factors associated with family satisfaction. METHODS This was an observational study of a convenience sample of morning work rounds in a PICU, followed by surveys of family members of patients in the unit and residents who h...

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OBJECTIVE To describe a framework to assist pediatric intensive care unit physicians in conducting follow-up meetings with parents after their child's death. Many childhood deaths occur in pediatric intensive care units. Parents of children who die in pediatric intensive care units often desire a follow-up meeting with the physician(s) who cared for their child. DATA SOURCES Prior research co...

OBJECTIVE To examine the frequency, severity, risk factors and mortality of hypokalemia, and efficacy of therapy used for its correction. DESIGN Descriptive, retrospective analysis. SAMPLE 290 patient records admitted consecutively to a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) over a period of one year. RESULTS Forty three (14.8%) patients had 54 episodes of hypokalemia. Predisposing factors ...

Medical rounds in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) took about four hours each day to complete. The length of rounds was affecting the advancement of care of the patients, the engagement of sub-specialty providers who needed to be present on other rounds, and the engagement of the PICU faculty and staff due to overburdening waste created by the long duration of rounds. Specific intervent...

INTRODUCTION Plasmapheresis also known as a therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) is extracorporeal procedure by which individual components of plasma that are harmful or blood cells can be removed from organism by using a blood separation technology. AIM To present the results of the implementation of plasmapheresis in children in the Department of Pediatric Intensive Care of Pediatric Clinic, C...

A avaliação do desfecho de crianças tratadas em unidades de terapia intensiva (UTIs) vem se modificando consideravelmente nos últimos 25 anos. O aumento na disponibilidade e na capacidade dos sistemas mecânicos e artificiais de suporte de órgãos e as consequentes baixas taxas de mortalidade na maioria das unidades de terapia intensiva pediátricas (UTIPs) indicam que a sobrevida após a internaçã...

background a broad variety of fungi, especially candida species, are becoming increasingly common causes of urinary tract infections in hospital settings. objectives the current cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to determine the causative agents, risk factors and incidence rate of candiduria in critically ill patients, hospitalized in intensive care units (icus) of four iranian hospitals....

objective to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganisms responsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit). patients and methods in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospital between august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the conta...