Manafi Anari, Ali

Iran University of Medical sciences, Tehran , Iran

[ 1 ] - Incidence and risk factors of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in pediatric intensive care unit admitted patients

Background and Objective: To assess the incidence and risk factors of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in children admitted to pediatric intensive care unit for more than 6 hrs. Methods: We prospectively collected medical records of children between 1 month and 18 years old admit-ted to our 10 bed PICU of a tertiary care university hospital between December 1, 2014 and May 30, 2015. De-mographi...

[ 2 ] - A new scoring system for stratifying risk for cerebral edema in children suffering diabetic ketoacidosis

Background: Predicting adverse neurovascular complications due to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) particularly in children leads to more appropriately management of disease as well as achievement of acceptable patients' survival. Cerebral edema is a life-threatening adverse event following DKA responsible for high mortality rate. Recently, authors have focused introducing new risk assessment tools ...

[ 3 ] - Management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is one of the leading causes of mortality in diabetic children. This study aimed to determine the frequency of mortality and complications of DKA during treatment in order to make the necessary modifications with regard to the common treatment problems. This was a cross sectional study, where patients were selected by examining the records of 112 children under the ...