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Intrahospital Transport Practice in Pediatric Intensive Care Units

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, 2023
Introduction:Critically ill children often require transport during diagnosis and treatment procedures during intensive care hospitalization. With this study, it was aimed to evaluate the practice of transport and the problems encountered during ...
Mehmet Ünal   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Time series analysis as input for clinical predictive modeling: Modeling cardiac arrest in a pediatric ICU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: Thousands of children experience cardiac arrest events every year in pediatric intensive care units. Most of these children die. Cardiac arrest prediction tools are used as part of medical emergency team evaluations to identify patients in ...
Curtis E Kennedy, James P Turley
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Correlation between stable hyperglycemia and mortality in children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit of Imam Hossein Hospital

open access: yesAdvanced Biomedical Research, 2021
Background: Stress-induced hyperglycemia is an important issue among pediatrics admitted in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Former studies have declared that hyperglycemia has a high prevalence rate and could increase the risks of mortality ...
Mohsen Reisi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Involvement in PICU Rounds: Reality or Rhetoric? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In pediatrics, the family are the centre of the child’s life, and crucial to their psychosocial wellbeing and their recovery from illness. Despite the impetus to improve family centered care in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, practices are ...
Latour, JM, Tume, LN
core   +2 more sources

Some Aspects of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

open access: yesPaediatrica Indonesiana, 2021
A pediatric intensive care unit is a matter of fact indispensable for a pediatric hospital. The Pediatric Department of the Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, although not really a pediatric hospital, has a capacity of 300 beds for infants and young children; therefore, it is only natural that the department should acquire its own intensive care ...
R, Hassan, Y A, Kasim
openaire   +2 more sources

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Resident Educational Curriculum [PDF]

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2020
Consistent medical knowledge acquisition while caring for the critically ill can be challenging for learners and educators in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), a unit often distinguished by fluctuating acuity and severity. We implemented a standardized didactic curriculum for PICU residents to facilitate their acquisition and retention of ...
Uchechi Oddiri, Grace Chong
openaire   +3 more sources

Pediatric Critical Care—A New Frontier

open access: yesPediatrics and Neonatology, 2009
Pediatric intensive care is now a subspecialty of pediatric medicine. Different pathologic and physiologic processes occur in pediatric patients who require intensive care.
Chu-Chuan Lin, Kai-Sheng Hsieh
doaj   +1 more source

National survey of pediatric services available in US emergency departments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: Children account for nearly 20% of all US emergency department (ED) visits, yet previous national surveys found that many EDs lack specialized pediatric care.
Amanda L Gonsalves   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Application of the pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM) score and determination of mortality risk factors in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit

open access: yesClinics, 2010
INTRODUCTION: To establish disease severity at admission can be performed by way of the mortality prognostic. Nowadays the prognostic scores make part of quality control and research.
Graziela Araujo Costa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Performance of the pediatric index of mortality 2 (PIM-2) in cardiac and mixed intensive care units in a tertiary children's referral hospital in Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Mortality rate of patients admitted to Intensive Care Units is a widely adopted outcome indicator. Because of large case-mix variability, comparisons of mortality rates must be adjusted for the severity of patient illness at admission.
Brusco, Carla   +9 more
core   +1 more source

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