Pediatr Crit Care Me
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To describe postoperative fluid overload patterns and correlate degree of fluid overload with intensive care morbidity and mortality in infants undergoing congenital heart surgery. ⋯ Early postoperative fluid overload is associated with suboptimal outcomes in infants following cardiac surgery. Because the majority of patients developed kidney injury without needing renal replacement therapy, fluid overload may be an important risk factor for adverse outcomes with all degrees of acute kidney injury.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2013
Comparative Study Controlled Clinical TrialThe efficacy of noninvasive hemoglobin measurement by pulse CO-oximetry in neonates.
To evaluate clinical applicability of noninvasive hemoglobin (Hb) measurement with a pulse CO-oximeter in neonates. ⋯ Noninvasive Hb measurements with Pulse CO-Oximetry provide clinically acceptable accuracy, and they were significantly correlated with laboratory Hb measurement in neonates. In terms of the clinical applicability, noninvasive Hb monitoring with a pulse CO-oximeter could be useful in the early detection of Hb changes in neonates.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2013
Clinical TrialDiagnosis of bacterial ventilator-associated pneumonia in children: reproducibility of blind bronchial sampling.
To evaluate the reproducibility of blind bronchial sampling in patients with suspected diagnosis of bacterial ventilator-associated pneumonia. ⋯ Blind bronchial sampling of lower respiratory tract secretions in mechanically ventilated patients generates reproducible results of quantitative and qualitative cultures. We suggest that blind bronchial sampling may provide valuable clue to the bacterial etiology in ventilated child with suspected clinical ventilator-associated pneumonia.