Critical care explorations
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Children represent a unique patient population treated by military personnel during wartime, as seen in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We sought to describe ICU resource utilization by U. S. military personnel treating pediatric trauma patients in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Cerebral oximetry by near-infrared spectroscopy is used frequently in critically ill children but guidelines on its use for decision making in the PICU are lacking. We investigated cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy oximetry in its ability to predict severe acute kidney injury after pediatric cardiac surgery and assessed its additional predictive value to routinely collected data.
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To clarify the relationship between mobility disability at the time of discharge from the ICU and clinical factors evaluated at ICU admission in septic patients.