Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2023
Visiting Policies and Parental Presence During PICU Admission: A Survey in French Units.
To describe the policies about parent visiting and involvement in care during admission to French PICUs. ⋯ Unrestricted access to the PICU, for both parents, was available in all responding French units. There were, however, restrictions on the number of visitors and the presence of other family members at the bedside. Moreover, permission for parental presence during care procedures was heterogenous, and mainly restricted. National guidelines and educational programs are needed to support family wishes and promote acceptance by healthcare providers in French PICUs.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2023
Fluid Balance and Its Association With Mortality and Health-Related Quality of Life: A Nonprespecified Secondary Analysis of the Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation.
To evaluate the association between fluid balance (FB) and health-related quality of life (HRQL) among children at 1 month following community-acquired septic shock. ⋯ Over half of the children who survived septic shock had low or high FB, which was associated with a significant decline in HRQL scores. Prospective studies are needed to determine if optimization of FB can improve HRQL outcomes.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2023
Trends in Childhood Oncology Admissions to ICUs in Australia and New Zealand.
There are few robust, national-level reports of contemporary trends in pediatric oncology admissions, resource use, and mortality. We aimed to describe national-level data on trends in intensive care admissions, interventions, and survival for children with cancer. ⋯ In Australian and New Zealand PICUs, pediatric oncology admissions are increasing steadily and such admissions are staying longer, representing a considerable proportion of ICU activity. The mortality of children with cancer who are admitted to ICU is low and falling.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2023
Combined Therapeutic Plasma Exchange and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Children With Dengue-Associated Acute Liver Failure and Shock Syndrome: Single-Center Cohort From Vietnam.
Pediatric acute liver failure (PALF) is a fatal complication in patients with severe dengue. To date, clinical data on the combination of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) for managing dengue-associated PALF concomitant with shock syndrome are limited. ⋯ In our experience of children with dengue-associated PALF and shock syndrome, combined use of TPE and CRRT, versus CRRT alone, is associated with better outcomes. Such combination intervention was associated with normalization of liver function, neurological status, and biochemistry. In our center we continue to use combined TPE and CRRT rather than CRRT alone.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2023
Emergency Inter-Hospital Transfer of Children to PICUs in the United Kingdom: Qualitative Exploration of Parents' Experiences of Retrieval Teams.
Each year in the United Kingdom there are around 5,000 inter-hospital transfers of critically ill children into PICUs. There are few published descriptions of what this experience is like for parents. The objective was to describe parents' experiences of the inter-hospital transfer of their critically ill child to a PICU. ⋯ Retrieval teams can influence how parents experience their child's emergency transfer to the PICU, offering parents proximity to knowledgeable staff. Satisfaction may be related to matching parents' needs. Understanding parents' needs and optimizing opportunities for effective communication between parents and staff are beneficial to parents.