Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Apr 1997
Failure of aggressive therapy to alter outcome in pediatric near-drowning.
To identify predictors of outcome in pediatric near-drowning victims, and to measure the effectiveness of therapy in pediatric near-drowning victims by assessing clinical outcome as a function of injury severity at presentation and therapeutic interventions during hospitalization. ⋯ Severity of illness measured by GCS and PRISM score in the ICU can be useful in predicting outcome. For patients cared for in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, those with asystole on arrival at the ED had uniformly poor outcome. Currently available therapies do not alter outcome.