Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2021
Observational StudyPertussis Infants Needing Mechanical Ventilation and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: Single-Center Retrospective Series in Vietnam.
Pertussis is an infectious disease that causes epidemics and outbreaks and is associated with a high mortality rate, especially in infants, in both developed and developing countries. We aimed to characterize infants with pertussis with respiratory failure and shock and investigated the factors related to mortality. ⋯ In this study, around one third of mechanically ventilated patients with pertussis died. Those who received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation had higher leukocyte counts, a higher prevalence of pulmonary hypertension, and advanced stages of acute kidney injury. Higher Vasoactive-Inotropic Score and advanced stages of acute kidney injury were associated with a greater risk of mortality.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2021
Pediatric Index of Mortality 3-An Evaluation of Function Among ICUs In South Africa.
To evaluate the performance of the Pediatric Index of Mortality 3 as mortality risk assessment model. ⋯ The Pediatric Index of Mortality 3 discrimination between death and survival among South African units was good. Case-mix differences between these units and the Pediatric Index of Mortality 3 derivation cohort may partly explain the poor calibration. We need to recalibrate Pediatric Index of Mortality 3 to the local setting.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2021
Parent and Physician Report of Discussions About Prognosis for Critically Ill Children.
Parents value clear communication with PICU clinicians about possible patient and family outcomes (prognostic conversations). We describe PICU parent and attending physician reports and agreement regarding the occurrence of prognostic conversations. We queried parents and physicians about prognostic conversation content, which healthcare providers had prognostic conversations, and whether parents wanted more prognostic information. ⋯ Most parents and physicians report having prognostic conversations, primarily about length of stay and post-ICU physical morbidities. Concordance between parents and physicians is suboptimal. Future studies should evaluate prognostic conversations at other timepoints, how information is delivered, and how these conversations impact the PICU experience.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2021
Timing and Clinical Significance of Fluid Overload in Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
Fluid overload is associated with worse outcomes in adult and pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome. However, the time-course of fluid overload and its relationship to outcome has not been described. We aimed to determine the relationship between the timing of fluid overload and outcomes over the first 7 days after acute respiratory distress syndrome onset in children. ⋯ Fluid overload after day 4 of acute respiratory distress syndrome, but not before, was associated with worse outcomes. Higher angiopoietin-2 predicted subsequent fluid overload. Our results suggest that future interventions aimed at managing fluid overload may have differential efficacy depending on when in the time-course of acute respiratory distress syndrome they are initiated.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Sep 2021
Observational StudyPrediction of Nociception in Children Using the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Threshold and the Bispectral Index-A Prospective Exploratory Observational Study.
The prediction of patient responses to potentially painful stimuli remains a challenge in PICUs. We investigated the ability of the paintracker analgesia monitor (Dolosys GmbH, Berlin, Germany) measuring the nociceptive flexion reflex threshold, the cerebral sedation monitor bispectral index (Medtronic, Dublin, Ireland), the COMFORT Behavior, and the modified Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability Scale scores to predict patient responses following a noxious stimulus. ⋯ In our sample of ventilated children in the PICU, bispectral index and nociceptive flexion reflex threshold provided good and fair prediction accuracy for patient responses to endotracheal suctioning.