Acta paediatrica
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Comparative Study
Association of house staff training with mortality in children with critical illness.
To evaluate the association of house staff training with mortality in children with critical illness. ⋯ Our study establishes that ICU care provided in hospitals with training programmes is associated with improved adjusted survival rates among the Virtual PICU database hospitals in the United States.
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To determine the accuracy of current methods of heart rate (HR) assessment. ⋯ Current methods in assessing rates below 60 bpm are inaccurate and may overestimate HR. We recommend that these methods alone should not be relied upon in neonatal resuscitation and objective assessment of heart rate should be readily available at all newborn resuscitations.