Critical care medicine
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Crit. Care Med.
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Critical care medicine · Mar 2022
Neuromuscular Blocker Use in critically Ill Children: Assessing Mortality Risk by Propensity Score-Weighted Analysis.
We aim to describe the use of continuous infusion of neuromuscular blocking agents in mechanically ventilated critically ill children and to test its association with in-hospital mortality. ⋯ Thirteen percent of mechanically ventilated children in PICUs received neuromuscular blocking agents. When adjusting for selection bias with a propensity score approach, the use of neuromuscular blocking agent was found to be a significant predictor of in-hospital mortality.