Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Feb 2022
Practice Guideline2022 Society of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation, Neuromuscular Blockade, and Delirium in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients With Consideration of the ICU Environment and Early Mobility.
A guideline that both evaluates current practice and provides recommendations to address sedation, pain, and delirium management with regard for neuromuscular blockade and withdrawal is not currently available. ⋯ The current guidelines represent a comprehensive list of practical clinical recommendations for the assessment, prevention, and management of key aspects for the comprehensive critical care of infants and children. Main areas of focus included 1) need for the routine monitoring of pain, agitation, withdrawal, and delirium using validated tools, 2) enhanced use of protocolized sedation and analgesia, and 3) recognition of the importance of nonpharmacologic interventions for enhancing patient comfort and comprehensive care provision.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Feb 2022
Observational StudyDifferences in the Genomic Profiles of Immunoparalyzed and Nonimmunoparalyzed Children With Sepsis: A Pilot Study.
Sepsis-induced immunoparalysis represents a pathologic downregulation of leukocyte function shown to be associated with adverse outcomes, although its mechanisms remain poorly understood. Our goal was to compare genome-wide gene expression profiles of immunoparalyzed and nonimmunoparalyzed children with sepsis to identify genes and pathways associated with immunoparalysis. ⋯ In this exploratory analysis, immunoparalyzed children with sepsis showed increased expression of genes that dampen the immune system and decreased expression of genes involved in regulation and activation of the immune system. Analysis also implicated other proteins as potentially having as yet unidentified roles in the development of immunoparalysis.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Feb 2022
Early Functional Status After Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.
The objective of this study is to investigate the change in functional status in infants, children, and adolescents undergoing congenital heart surgery using the Functional Status Scale. ⋯ This study demonstrates the novel application of the Functional Status Scale on patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. New morbidity was noted in 4.6%, whereas unfavorable outcome in 1%. There was a small change in the total Functional Status Scale score that was largely attributed to changes in the feeding domain. Higher Society of Thoracic and the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery score, single-ventricle physiology, and longer cardiopulmonary bypass times were associated with new morbidity, whereas longer hospital length of stay was associated with both new morbidity and unfavorable outcome. Further studies with larger sample size will need to be done to confirm our findings and to better ascertain the utility of Functional Status Scale on this patient population.
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To evaluate whether delirium during pediatric critical illness is associated with post-discharge health-related quality of life. ⋯ Delirium during the ICU stay is associated with decline in health-related quality of life from baseline to post-discharge follow-up among children assessed by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, who were generally characterized by normal baseline cognitive function and less medical comorbidity. This association was not present among children assessed by the Functional Status II-R, potentially due to their higher overall risk of health-related quality of life decline, or other clinical differences that modify the effects of delirium in this group.