OBJECTIVE To assess the burden and spectrum of neurological illness in a pediatric intensive care unit and review the associated mortality. METHODS Retrospective review of medical records of children (1 mo-16 years) with acute neurological diagnosis admitted in PICU in Aga Khan University hospital from January 2008 to December 2011 was done. Basic demographic, diagnosis, neuro diagnostic proc...

516 www.pccmjournal.org June 2016 • Volume 17 • Number 6 Objectives: To compare the severity of illness and outcomes among children admitted to a children’s hospital PICU from referring emergency departments with and without access to a pediatric critical care telemedicine program. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Tertiary academic children’s hospital PICU. Patients: Pediatric patie...

OBJECTIVES To compare the severity of illness and outcomes among children admitted to a children's hospital PICU from referring emergency departments with and without access to a pediatric critical care telemedicine program. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary academic children's hospital PICU. PATIENTS Pediatric patients admitted directly to the PICU from referring emerge...

BACKGROUND There are few large-scale, prospective studies of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in children that identify predictors of adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVES We aimed to examine clinical epidemiology and predictors for adverse outcomes in children hospitalised with influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 in Australia. METHODS Active hospital surveillance in six tertiary paediatric referral centres (June-Septembe...

We sought to investigate the risk factors and outcome of Ventilator Associated Tracheitis (VAT) according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) definition in pediatric trauma patients who were ventilated for ≥48 hr. In a retrospective cohort study, medical records of all pediatric trauma patients admitted to our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) between April 2002 and April 2007 were revie...

AIMS To estimate the prevalence of children admitted after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) to UK and Republic of Ireland (RoI) Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) and factors associated with mortality to inform future clinical trial feasibility. METHOD Observational study using a prospectively collected dataset of the Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network (PICANet) of 33 UK and Ro...

AIM To obtain data on the safety and clinical impact of managing infants with bronchiolitis on the ward with high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) treatment. METHODS A prospective pilot study was conducted of 61 infants aged <12 months with bronchiolitis and oxygen requirement presenting to the emergency department. HFNC was commenced at 2 L/kg/min, and fraction of inspired oxygen was titrated to ox...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that transfusion of leukocyte-depleted RBC preparations within the first 48 hours of PICU stay was independently associated with prolonged duration of mechanical ventilation, irrespective of surgery type and disease severity. DESIGN Retrospective, observational study. SETTING Single-center PICU in The Netherlands. PATIENTS Children less than 18 years conse...

Children frequently experience more painful, stressful, and traumatic medical procedures treatments in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) than when they are hospitalized general wards. An essential part of PICU is providing critically ill children with appropriate sedation analgesia. Finding perfect combination adequate analgesia sufficient a patient group wide range ages, sizes, developm...