Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2014
Comparative StudyHealth-Related Quality of Life in Pediatric Cardiac Extracorporeal Life Support Survivors.
To assess the health-related quality of life of children who received cardiac extracorporeal life support. We hypothesized that extracorporeal life support survivors have lower health-related quality-of-life scores when compared with a healthy sample, with children with chronic conditions, and with children who had surgery for congenital heart disease and did not receive extracorporeal life support. ⋯ Pediatric cardiac extracorporeal life support survivors showed lower health-related quality of life than healthy children, children with chronic conditions, and children with congenital heart disease who did not receive extracorporeal life support.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Oct 2014
Comparative Study Observational StudyPrevalence of Burnout in Pediatric Intensivists: An Observational Comparison With General Pediatricians.
To study the prevalence of burnout in general pediatricians and pediatric intensivists and to evaluate factors that may be associated with this syndrome. ⋯ Burnout is frequent among pediatric intensivists and characterized by cumulative involvement of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and professional accomplishment. Earlier recognition of emotional exhaustion may be important in preventing the development of a complete burnout syndrome. Improvement in workplace characteristics and measures to improve physician resilience are entirely warranted.