Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2025
Evaluation of Phoenix Sepsis Score Criteria: Exploratory Analysis of Characteristics and Outcomes in an Emergency Transport PICU Cohort From the United Kingdom, 2014-2016.
To assess characteristics and outcomes of children with suspected or confirmed infection requiring emergency transport and PICU admission and to explore the association between the 2024 Phoenix Sepsis Score (PSS) criteria and mortality. ⋯ In 2014-2016, over half of the critically ill children undergoing emergency transport to PICU with presumed or confirmed infection, and meeting retrospectively applied PSS criteria for sepsis, had a range of clinical diagnoses including bronchiolitis, meningoencephalitis, and pneumonia/empyema. Furthermore, the PSS criteria for categorization of sepsis and septic shock were associated with outcome and may be of value in future risk-stratification in clinical trials.