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The Professional Medical Journal, 2006 Intensive care is predominantly concerned with the managementof patients with acute life threatening conditions in a specialized unit. Children having acute neurological deterioration,respiratory distress, cardiovascular compromise, severe infections and accidental poisonings constitute the majoradmission to a pediatric intensive care unit.
HUMAYUN IQBAL KHAN +2 more
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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]
, 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
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Advanced 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
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Some Aspects of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Paediatrica 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
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Resident Educational Curriculum [PDF]
MedEdPORTAL, 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
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Pediatric Critical Care—A New Frontier
Pediatrics 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
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Clinics, 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
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An Electronic Delphi Study to Establish Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing Research Priorities in Twenty European Countries* [PDF]
, 2014 OBJECTIVES:: To identify and to establish research priorities for pediatric intensive care nursing science across Europe. DESIGN:: A modified three-round electronic Delphi technique was applied.
Latour, Jos M. +3 more
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National survey of pediatric services available in US emergency departments [PDF]
, 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
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Why is “early childhood intensive care” an Italian association of neonatology study group?
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2019 To date, a large number of children are hospitalized inappropriately in adult intensive care units, where the minimum standards of care are not applied to young patients. It is well-known that the child is not a small adult.
Nicola Pozzi +3 more
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