Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Mar 2022
Anthropology in the PICU: Addressing the Local Worlds of Families in an Otherwise Foreign Land.
Critical illness is a scary, and often previously unknown, experience for children and their families. To best assist pediatric critically ill patients and their caregivers, it is imperative to understand their local worlds outside of the PICU and what matters to them most. Anthropology, and its ethnographic lens and mode of inquiry, is an underutilized aspect of multidisciplinary care and research in pediatric critical care but has much to offer as exemplified herein.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Mar 2022
Observational StudyPrevalence of and Associations With Avascular Necrosis After Pediatric Sepsis: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.
Avascular necrosis (AVN) is a rare, but serious, complication after sepsis in adults. We sought to determine if sepsis is associated with postillness diagnosis of AVN, as well as potential-associated risk factors for AVN in children with sepsis. ⋯ Although rare, sepsis was associated with a higher risk of subsequent AVN than suspected bacterial infection in children. Older age, malignancy, unknown site of infection, and minimum platelet count were potential risk factors for AVN after sepsis.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Mar 2022
Editorial CommentLatent Safety Threats in the PICU: Finding the Unseen.