Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Sep 2016
Observational StudyPediatric Triage in a Severe Pandemic: Maximizing Survival by Establishing Triage Thresholds.
To develop and validate an algorithm to guide selection of patients for pediatric critical care admission during a severe pandemic when Crisis Standards of Care are implemented. ⋯ Use of triage thresholds based on probability of death and duration of mechanical ventilation determined from actual critically ill children's data demonstrated superior population survival during a simulated overwhelming pandemic.