Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Outcomes for Pediatric Oncology and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Patients Who Undergo Tracheostomy Placement: A Pediatric Health information System Database Cohort Study, 2009-2020.
To describe the epidemiology, surgical complications, and long-term outcomes after tracheostomy in pediatric oncology and/or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) patients in U.S. Children's Hospitals. ⋯ This study demonstrated a static prevalence of tracheostomy placement in the cohort population relative to the increasing trends in other reported groups. Regardless of underlying diagnosis, the study patients incurred substantial morbidity and mortality. However, tracheostomy specific complication rates were comparable with that of the general pediatric population and were not associated with increased odds of mortality within this population.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship Training in the United States and Canada: Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Endorsed Subcompetencies to the 2022 Entrustable Professional Activities.
We aimed to define and map subcompetencies required for pediatric cardiac critical care (PCCC) fellowship education and training under the auspices of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS). We used the 2022 frameworks for PCCC fellowship learning objectives by Tabbutt et al and for entrustable professional activities (EPAs) by Werho et al and integrated new subcompetencies to the EPAs. This complementary update serves to provide a foundation for standardized trainee assessment tools for PCCC. ⋯ This represents the 2023 update to the PCCC fellowship education and training EPAs with the defining and mapping of 110 subcompetencies to the nine established 2022 EPAs. This goal of this update is to serve as the next step in the integration of EPAs into a standardized competency-based assessment framework for trainees in PCCC.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Association Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors and Length of Stay After Surgery for Congenital Heart Disease.
Neighborhood socioeconomic status, as measured by area deprivation index (ADI) is associated with longer length of stay (LOS) after surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. We tested the hypothesis that LOS is associated with ADI in a large cohort of congenital heart disease (CHD) surgical cases of varying severity and sought to determine which other components of the ADI accounted for any associations. ⋯ LOS after CHD surgery is associated with Brokamp ADI in STAT category 5 cases, we failed to identify an association in lower-risk cardiac operations.