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Burden, risk factors, and outcomes respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in pediatric intensive care units in Türkiye (RSVP Study 2020-2024)

BMC Pediatrics
Background Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the leading causes of respiratory tract infections in infants and young children requiring a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
Yasemin Coban, Gultac Evren, Dincer Yildizdas, Neslihan Zengin, Alkan Bal, Tanıl Kendirli, Merve Havan, Eda Eyduran, Muhterem Duyu, Ayşe Aşık, Nazik Yener, Hatice Elif Kınık Kaya, Muhammed Udurgucu, Eylem Kiral, Gurkan Bozan, Mehmet Arda Kilinc, Nagehan Aslan, Mustafa Colak, Esra Sevketoglu, Seher Erdogan, Hazal Ceren Tugrul, Fatih Akın, Abdullah Akkus, Nihal Akcay, Ilyas Bingol, Oguz Dursun, Nazan Ulgen Tekerek, Alper Koker, Mutlu Uysal Yazıcı, Ebru Azapagasi, Nuri Alacakir, Caglar Odek, Didar Arslan, Faruk Ekinci, Ozden Ozgur Horoz, Ese Eda Turanli, Feyza Incekoy, Nilufer Yalindag Ozturk, Ali Ertug Arslankoylu, Mehmet Alakaya, Merve Misirlioglu, Resul Yilmaz, Ali Korulmaz, Ezgi Ozlem Ozmen, Ener Cagri Dinleyici   +44 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnostic value of ferritin for the severity of dengue infection in children

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2019
The study was conducted to evaluate whether the severity of dengue fever can be predicted by serum ferritin level or not. This prospective observational study was conducted during the endemic period of dengue fever in 2019.
Farzana Ahmed, Nargis Ara Begum, Md.  Moshiur Rahman, Md.  Salim Shakur, Shabrina Sharmin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family-Centered Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2013
Patient-centered and family-centered care (PFCC) has been endorsed by many professional health care organizations. Although variably defined, PFCC is an approach to care that is respectful of and responsive to the preferences, needs, and values of individual patients and their families.
Kathleen L, Meert, Jeff, Clark, Susan, Eggly   +2 more
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Safety and Effectiveness of a High‐Dose, Tailored Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy Protocol: A Joint Pediatric Hematology and Cardiac ICU Quality Improvement Initiative Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric thromboembolism is increasingly encountered in critical care. Systemic thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) facilitates vessel or valve patency, yet pediatric‐specific protocols remain undefined, and safety concerns persist. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a tailored, prolonged systemic tPA
Eran Shostak, Oded Gilad, Yael Feinstein, Sigal Nakav, Ofer Schiller, Joanne Yacobovich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Daniel J. Indelicato, Jeanette Parkes, Natia Esiashvili, Josué Hernández Benítez, Miriam Mikhail‐Lette, Olivera Cirajc Bjelac, Daniel Berger, Eva Ciurana, Yavuz Anacak, Lisbeth Cordero‐Mendez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Update on COVID-19 in the pediatric population at University Hospital of Oran. A retrospective study [PDF]

Batna Journal of Medical Sciences
Introduction. The spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, discovered in China in January 2020, led to a pandemic in Algeria as early as February. Children and adolescents under the age of 18 were much more rarely affected than adults and account ...
Djamila-Djahida BATOUCHE, Zakaria Zoheir ADDOU, Kamel ELHALIMI, Amel BOUGUERRA, Fouzia BOUNOUA, Djilali BATOUCHE, Sid Ahmed BAKRI, Houcine SADDOK, Fatima Zohra LATRECHE, Sara-Halima MOHAMMEDI   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk factors and incidence of invasive bacterial infection in severe bronchiolitis: the RICOIB prospective study

BMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background Bacterial infection (BI), both community-acquired (CA-BI) and hospital-acquired (HAI), might present as a severe complication in patients with bronchiolitis.
Carmina Guitart, Carme Alejandre, Sara Bobillo-Perez, Monica Girona-Alarcon, Anna Sole-Ribalta, Francisco Jose Cambra, Monica Balaguer, Iolanda Jordan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

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, NAILA KHALIQ, MUHAMMAD FAHEEM AFZAL   +2 more
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A Situational Assessment of the Diagnostic Landscape and Organizational Readiness to Implement Next‐Generation Sequencing at Two Childhood Cancer Treatment Centers in Ghana

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho, Emmanuella Amoako, Nihad Salifu, Lily Gloria Tagoe, Yaw Bediako, Michelle Hermiston, Catherine Segbefia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sepsis in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, 2011
The survival rate for children with congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased significantly coincident with improved techniques in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass and myocardial protection, and perioperative care. Cardiopulmonary bypass, likely in combination with ischemia—reperfusion injury, hypothermia, and surgical trauma, elicits
Derek S, Wheeler, Howard E, Jeffries, Jerry J, Zimmerman, Hector R, Wong, Joseph A, Carcillo   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources