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Patel BM, Reilly JP, Bhalla AK, Smith LS, Khemani RG, Jones TK, Meyer NJ, Harhay MO, Yehya N. Association between Age and Mortality in Pediatric and Adult Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2024; 209:871-878. [PMID: 38306669 PMCID: PMC10995578 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202310-1926oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024] Open
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Rationale: The epidemiology, management, and outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) differ between children and adults, with lower mortality rates in children despite comparable severity of hypoxemia. However, the relationship between age and mortality is unclear.Objective: We aimed to define the association between age and mortality in ARDS, hypothesizing that it would be nonlinear.Methods: We performed a retrospective cohort study using data from two pediatric ARDS observational cohorts (n = 1,236), multiple adult ARDS trials (n = 5,547), and an adult observational ARDS cohort (n = 1,079). We aligned all datasets to meet Berlin criteria. We performed unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression using fractional polynomials to assess the potentially nonlinear relationship between age and 90-day mortality, adjusting for sex, PaO2/FiO2, immunosuppressed status, year of study, and observational versus randomized controlled trial, treating each individual study as a fixed effect.Measurements and Main Results: There were 7,862 subjects with median ages of 4 years in the pediatric cohorts, 52 years in the adult trials, and 61 years in the adult observational cohort. Most subjects (43%) had moderate ARDS by Berlin criteria. Ninety-day mortality was 19% in the pediatric cohorts, 33% in the adult trials, and 67% in the adult observational cohort. We found a nonlinear relationship between age and mortality, with mortality risk increasing at an accelerating rate between 11 and 65 years of age, after which mortality risk increased more slowly.Conclusions: There was a nonlinear relationship between age and mortality in pediatric and adult ARDS.
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- Bhavesh M Patel
- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
- Center for Translational Lung Biology, and
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; and
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; and
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
- Center for Translational Lung Biology, and
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
- Center for Translational Lung Biology, and
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Reifarth E, Garcia Borrega J, Kochanek M. How to communicate with family members of the critically ill in the intensive care unit: A scoping review. Intensive Crit Care Nurs 2023; 74:103328. [PMID: 36180318 DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2022.103328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To map the existing approaches to communication with family members of the critically ill in the intensive care unit and the corresponding implementation requirements and benefits. METHODS We conducted a scoping review in February 2022 by searching PubMed, CINAHL, APA PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library for articles published between 2000 and 2022. We included records of all designs that met our inclusion criteria and applied frequency counts and qualitative coding. RESULTS The search yielded 3749 records, 63 met inclusion criteria. The included records were of an interventional (43 %) or observational (14 %) study design or review articles (43 %), and provided information in three categories: communication platforms, strategies, and tools. For implementation in the intensive care unit, the approaches required investing time and resources. Their reported benefits were an increased quality of communication and satisfaction among all parties involved, improved psychological outcome among family members, and reduced intensive care unit length of stay and costs. CONCLUSION The current approaches to communication with patients' family members offer insights for the development and implementation of communication pathways in the intensive care unit of which the benefits seem to outweigh the efforts. Structured interprofessional frameworks with standardised tools based on empathic communication strategies are encouraged.
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- Eyleen Reifarth
- Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Center of Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
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- Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Center of Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
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- Department I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Center of Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf (CIO), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50937 Cologne, Germany.
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