Anales de pediatría : publicación oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)
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To assess the usefulness of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) measurement, by the intra-vesical method, in order to identify those patients at risk of developing intra-abdominal hypertension, as well as to analyse the factors that affect the IAP, and to determine their influence on the prognosis in critically ill patients. ⋯ IAP monitoring can be useful to diagnose and to promptly treat intra-abdominal hypertension, and thus to prevent the abdominal compartment syndrome. Therefore, it should be measured in critically ill children with abdominal pathology.
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Practice Guideline
[Recommendations for respiratory support in the newborn].
The recommendations included in this document will be part a series of updated reviews of the literature on respiratory support in the newborn infant. These recommendations are structured into twelve modules, with modules 4, 5, and 6 presented here. ⋯ They represent a summary of the published papers on each specific topic, and of the clinical experience of each one of the members of the group. Each module includes a summary of the scientific evidence available, graded into 4 levels of recommendations.