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O'Hearn K, Menon K, Albrecht L, Amrein K, Britz-McKibbin P, Cayouette F, Choong K, Foster JR, Fergusson DA, Floh A, Fontela P, Geier P, Gilfoyle E, Guerra GG, Gunz A, Helmeczi E, Khamessan A, Joffe AR, Lee L, McIntyre L, Murthy S, Parsons SJ, Ramsay T, Ryerson L, Tucci M, McNally D. Rapid normalization of vitamin D deficiency in PICU (VITdALIZE-KIDS): study protocol for a phase III, multicenter randomized controlled trial. Trials 2024; 25:619. [PMID: 39300483 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-024-08461-7] [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: 04/24/2024] [Accepted: 09/05/2024] [Indexed: 09/22/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The rate of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in critically ill children worldwide has been estimated at 50%. These children are at risk of multiple organ dysfunction, chronic morbidity, and decreased health related quality of life (HRQL). Pediatric and adult ICU clinical trials suggest that VDD is associated with worse clinical outcomes, although data from supplementation trials are limited and inconclusive. Our group's phase II multicenter dose evaluation pilot study established the efficacy and safety of an enteral weight-based cholecalciferol loading dose to rapidly restore vitamin D levels in critically ill children. METHODS Our aim is to evaluate the impact of this dosing regimen on clinical outcomes. VITdALIZE-KIDS is a pragmatic, phase III, multicenter, double-blind RCT aiming to randomize 766 critically ill children from Canadian PICUs. Participants are randomized using a 1:1 scheme to receive a single dose at enrollment of enteral cholecalciferol (10,000 IU/kg, max 400,000 IU) or placebo. Eligibility criteria include critically ill children aged newborn (> 37 weeks corrected gestational age) to < 18 years who have blood total 25-hydroxyvitamin D < 50 nmol/L. The primary objective is to determine if rapid normalization of vitamin D status improves HRQL at 28 days following enrollment. The secondary objective is to evaluate the impact of rapid normalization of vitamin D status on multiple organ dysfunction. The study includes additional tertiary outcomes including functional status, HRQL and mortality at hospital discharge and 90 days, PICU and hospital length of stay, and adverse events related to vitamin D toxicity. Additionally, we are performing comprehensive vitamin D speciation and non-targeted metabolite profiling as part of a sub-study for the first 100 participants from whom an enrollment and at least one post-intervention blood and urine sample were obtained. DISCUSSION The VITdALIZE-KIDS trial is the first phase III, multicenter trial to evaluate whether rapid normalization of vitamin D status could represent a simple, inexpensive, and safe means of improving outcomes following pediatric critical illness. Recruitment was initiated in June 2019 and is expected to continue to March 2026. TRIAL REGISTRATION Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT03742505. Study first submitted on November 12, 2018 https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03742505.
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- Katie O'Hearn
- CHEO Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- CHEO Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- CHEO Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Division, Centre Mère-Enfant Soleil du CHU de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Critical Care, McMaster Children's Hospital, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pediatric Critical Care, IWK Health, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Department of Critical Care, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Labatt Family Heart Centre, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, McGill University, MontrealMontreal, QC, Canada
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- CHEO Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1C9, Canada
- Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, Children's Health Research Institute, LondonLondon, ONON, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Euro-Pharm International Canada Inc, Montreal, Canada
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- Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Cummings School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Canada
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- School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Stollery Children's Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Sainte Justine and Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- CHEO Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
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Yagiela LM, Pfarr MA, Meert K, Odetola FO. Adherence with post-hospitalization follow-up after pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure. BMC Pediatr 2024; 24:409. [PMID: 38918739 PMCID: PMC11202389 DOI: 10.1186/s12887-024-04888-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Adherence with follow-up appointments after a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission is likely a key component in managing post-PICU sequalae. However, prior work on PICU follow-up adherence is limited. The objective of this study is to identify hospitalization characteristics, discharge child health metrics, and follow-up characteristics associated with full adherence with recommended follow-up at a quaternary care center after a PICU admission due to respiratory failure. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients ≤ 18 years with respiratory failure admitted between 1/2013-12/2014 to a quaternary care PICU. Post-hospitalization full adherence with recommended follow-up in the two years post discharge (1/2013-3/2017) at the quaternary care center was quantified and compared by demographics, baseline child health metrics, hospitalization characteristics, discharge child health metrics, and follow-up characteristics in bivariate and multivariate analyses. Patients were dichotomized into being non-adherent with follow-up (patients who attended less than 100% of recommended appointments at the quaternary care center) and fully adherent (patients who attended 100% of recommended appointments at the quaternary care center). RESULTS Of 155 patients alive at hospital discharge, 140 (90.3%) were recommended to follow-up at the quaternary care center. Of the 140 patients with recommended follow-up at the quaternary care center, 32.1% were non-adherent with follow-up and 67.9% were fully adherent. In a multivariable logistic regression model, each additional recommended unique follow-up appointment was associated with lower odds of being fully adherent with follow-up (OR 0.74, 95% CI 0.60-0.91, p = 0.005), and each 10% increase in the proportion of appointments scheduled before discharge was associated with higher odds of being fully adherent with follow-up (OR 1.02, 95% CI 1.01-1.03, p = 0.004). CONCLUSIONS After admission for acute respiratory failure, only two-thirds of children were fully adherent with recommended follow-up at a quaternary care center. Our findings suggest that limiting the recommended follow-up to only key essential healthcare providers and working to schedule as many appointments as possible before discharge could improve follow-up adherence. However, a better understanding of the factors that lead to non-adherence with follow-up appointments is needed to inform broader system-level approaches could help improve PICU follow-up adherence.
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- Lauren M Yagiela
- Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Child Health Evaluation and Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Kobayashi K, Kobayashi K, Liu C, Ryan J, Zurakowski D, Ishibashi N. Establishing Optimal Control Cohorts for Phase 1 Trials: Retrospective Analysis of Clinical and Biological Outcomes in Neonates and Infants Undergoing Two-Ventricle Repair. Pediatr Cardiol 2024:10.1007/s00246-024-03550-5. [PMID: 38918239 DOI: 10.1007/s00246-024-03550-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 06/13/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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Phase 1 trials are primarily conducted to evaluate the safety and feasibility of new interventions, usually without recruiting control patients. This retrospective study aims to characterize clinical and biological outcomes in historical and contemporary cases of neonates and infants undergoing two-ventricle repair to facilitate future secondary endpoint analyses for such trials. This retrospective study included neonates/infants (ages ≤ 6 months) who underwent two-ventricle repair between 2015 and 2021 using the same criteria as our phase 1 trial (n = 199). Patients were allocated into the ventricular septal defect (n = 61), the Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF, n = 88), and the transposition of the great arteries (n = 50) groups with an additional comparison between two eras (2015-2019 vs. 2020-2021). Patient characteristics and most variables assessed were different between the three diagnostic groups indicating the importance of diagnostic matching for secondary analyses. Although the era did not alter cerebral/somatic oxygenation, ventricular function, neuroimaging findings, and complication rates, we observed improvement of inotropic and/or vasoactive-inotropic scores in all groups during the more recent era. In 2020-2021, the age and the body weight at the operation were higher, and hospital stay was shorter in the TOF group, suggesting the possible impact of the pandemic. Results also indicated that matching altered characteristics such as age at operation that may limit the temporal effects and optimize secondary analyses. Using optimal contemporary cases and historical data based on this study will assist in developing a comprehensive study design for a future efficacy/effectiveness trial.
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- Kumi Kobayashi
- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- Children's National Heart Center, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, 20010, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- Children's National Heart Center, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, 20010, USA
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- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA
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- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- Departments of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
- Children's National Heart Center, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, 20010, USA.
- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
- Children's National Hospital, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, USA.
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Long D, Minogue J, Charles K, Morgan S, Schults J, Le Marsney R, Stocker C, Gibbons KS, Dow B. Neurodevelopmental outcome and quality of life in children admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit: A single-centre Australian cohort study. Aust Crit Care 2024:S1036-7314(24)00087-0. [PMID: 38866692 DOI: 10.1016/j.aucc.2024.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND The development of new morbidities has become increasingly identified in paediatric critical care medicine. To date, there has been limited research of long-term outcomes following paediatric critical illness in Australia. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to quantify neurodevelopmental impairments in children following paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) discharge and their association with health-related quality of life (HRQoL). METHODS A single-centre ambidirectional cohort study at an Australian hospital. Parents of children admitted to the PICU between 2015 and 2017 were invited to participate. Neurodevelopmental outcome and HRQoL was prospectively evaluated, using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (<5 years), Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (≥5 years), and Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™, respectively. RESULTS A total of 230 parents of critically ill children participated. Children were 1.9 years old (median, interquartile range [IQR]: 0.2, 7.5), male (59.6%), and ventilated (49.1%) at PICU admission. The median time to follow-up was 24.4 months (IQR: 16.3, 36.7). Parent respondents were more likely to be female (85.5%), White (88.3%), and partnered (81.1%). The incidence of overall neurodevelopmental impairment was 30% (33% in children aged <5 years; 24% in children aged ≥5 years). The incidence of poor HRQoL was 37.9%. History of developmental delay was independently associated with overall neurodevelopmental impairment (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 4.21, 95% confidence interval: 2.05, 8.63) and poor HRQoL (aOR: 7.29, 95% confidence interval: 3.26, 16.27). Two or more PICU admissions (aOR: 4.10, IQR: 1.82, 9.26) was also associated with poor HRQoL. CONCLUSIONS This is the first contemporary view of PICU long-term outcomes conducted in Australia and significantly informs ongoing research in this area. Approximately one-third of PICU survivors demonstrate neurodevelopmental impairment and reduced quality of life. Multiple domains of post-intensive care syndrome-paediatrics must be considered to have a comprehensive understanding of child outcomes. Assessment of baseline/premorbid functioning is also essential in order to understand the true impact of illness and PICU admission.
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- Debbie Long
- School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Paediatric Intensive Care, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
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- School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Mater Mother's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Paediatric Intensive Care, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; Herston Infectious Diseases Institute, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane, Australia
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- Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Paediatric Intensive Care, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Paediatric Intensive Care, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Herston Infectious Diseases Institute, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane, Australia
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- Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Paediatric Intensive Care, Queensland Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
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- Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia; Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Plante V, Basu M, Gettings JV, Luchette M, LaRovere KL. Update in Pediatric Neurocritical Care: What a Neurologist Caring for Critically Ill Children Needs to Know. Semin Neurol 2024; 44:362-388. [PMID: 38788765 DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1787047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
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Currently nearly one-quarter of admissions to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) worldwide are for neurocritical care diagnoses that are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Pediatric neurocritical care is a rapidly evolving field with unique challenges due to not only age-related responses to primary neurologic insults and their treatments but also the rarity of pediatric neurocritical care conditions at any given institution. The structure of pediatric neurocritical care services therefore is most commonly a collaborative model where critical care medicine physicians coordinate care and are supported by a multidisciplinary team of pediatric subspecialists, including neurologists. While pediatric neurocritical care lies at the intersection between critical care and the neurosciences, this narrative review focuses on the most common clinical scenarios encountered by pediatric neurologists as consultants in the PICU and synthesizes the recent evidence, best practices, and ongoing research in these cases. We provide an in-depth review of (1) the evaluation and management of abnormal movements (seizures/status epilepticus and status dystonicus); (2) acute weakness and paralysis (focusing on pediatric stroke and select pediatric neuroimmune conditions); (3) neuromonitoring modalities using a pathophysiology-driven approach; (4) neuroprotective strategies for which there is evidence (e.g., pediatric severe traumatic brain injury, post-cardiac arrest care, and ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke); and (5) best practices for neuroprognostication in pediatric traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, and disorders of consciousness, with highlights of the 2023 updates on Brain Death/Death by Neurological Criteria. Our review of the current state of pediatric neurocritical care from the viewpoint of what a pediatric neurologist in the PICU needs to know is intended to improve knowledge for providers at the bedside with the goal of better patient care and outcomes.
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- Virginie Plante
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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Frazier AH, Topjian AA, Reeder RW, Morgan RW, Fink EL, Franzon D, Graham K, Harding ML, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Wolfe HA, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Diddle JW, Federman M, Friess SH, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Meert KL, Naim MY, Notterman D, Pollack MM, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Viteri S, Wessel D, Yates AR, Sutton RM, Berg RA. Association of Pediatric Postcardiac Arrest Ventilation and Oxygenation with Survival Outcomes. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2024; 21:895-906. [PMID: 38507645 PMCID: PMC11160133 DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.202311-948oc] [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: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024] Open
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Rationale: Adult and pediatric studies provide conflicting data regarding whether post-cardiac arrest hypoxemia, hyperoxemia, hypercapnia, and/or hypocapnia are associated with worse outcomes. Objectives: We sought to determine whether postarrest hypoxemia or postarrest hyperoxemia is associated with lower rates of survival to hospital discharge, compared with postarrest normoxemia, and whether postarrest hypocapnia or hypercapnia is associated with lower rates of survival, compared with postarrest normocapnia. Methods: An embedded prospective observational study during a multicenter interventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation trial was conducted from 2016 to 2021. Patients ⩽18 years old and with a corrected gestational age of ≥37 weeks who received chest compressions for cardiac arrest in one of the 18 intensive care units were included. Exposures during the first 24 hours postarrest were hypoxemia, hyperoxemia, or normoxemia-defined as lowest arterial oxygen tension/pressure (PaO2) <60 mm Hg, highest PaO2 ⩾200 mm Hg, or every PaO2 60-199 mm Hg, respectively-and hypocapnia, hypercapnia, or normocapnia, defined as lowest arterial carbon dioxide tension/pressure (PaCO2) <30 mm Hg, highest PaCO2 ⩾50 mm Hg, or every PaCO2 30-49 mm Hg, respectively. Associations of oxygenation and carbon dioxide group with survival to hospital discharge were assessed using Poisson regression with robust error estimates. Results: The hypoxemia group was less likely to survive to hospital discharge, compared with the normoxemia group (adjusted relative risk [aRR] = 0.71; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.58-0.87), whereas survival in the hyperoxemia group did not differ from that in the normoxemia group (aRR = 1.0; 95% CI = 0.87-1.15). The hypercapnia group was less likely to survive to hospital discharge, compared with the normocapnia group (aRR = 0.74; 95% CI = 0.64-0.84), whereas survival in the hypocapnia group did not differ from that in the normocapnia group (aRR = 0.91; 95% CI = 0.74-1.12). Conclusions: Postarrest hypoxemia and hypercapnia were each associated with lower rates of survival to hospital discharge.
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- Aisha H. Frazier
- Nemours Cardiac Center, and
- Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children’s Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nemours Children’s Health, Wilmington, Delaware
- Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Heneghan JA, Akande MY, Ramgopal S, Evans MD, Hallman M, Goodman DM. New Morbidities During Critical Illness and Associated Risk of ICU Readmission: Virtual Pediatric Systems Cohort, 2017-2020. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2024:00130478-990000000-00345. [PMID: 38780383 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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OBJECTIVES To describe change in Functional Status Scale (FSS) associated with critical illness and assess associated development of new morbidities with PICU readmission. DESIGN Retrospective, cross-sectional cohort study using the Virtual Pediatric Systems (VPS; Los Angeles, CA) database. SETTING One hundred twenty-six U.S. PICUs participating in VPS. SUBJECTS Children younger than 21 years old admitted 2017-2020 and followed to December 2022. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Among 40,654 patients, 86.2% were classified as having good function or mild dysfunction before illness. Most patients did not have a change in their FSS category during hospitalization. Survival with new morbidity occurred most in children with baseline good/mild dysfunction (8.7%). Hospital mortality increased across categories of baseline dysfunction. Of 39,701 survivors, 14.2% were readmitted within 1 year. Median time to readmission was 159 days. In multivariable, mixed-effects Cox modeling, time to readmission was most associated with discharge functional status (hazard ratio [HR], 5.3 [95% CI, 4.6-6.1] for those with very severe dysfunction), and associated with lower hazard in those who survived with new morbidity (HR, 0.7 [95% CI, 0.6-0.7]). CONCLUSIONS Development of new morbidities occurs commonly in pediatric critical illness, but we failed to find an association with greater hazard of PICU readmission. Instead, patient functional status is associated with hazard of PICU readmission.
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- Julia A Heneghan
- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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- Section of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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- Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
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Maddux AB, Miller KR, Sierra YL, Bennett TD, Watson RS, Spear M, Pyle LL, Mourani PM. Recovery Trajectories in Children Requiring 3 or More Days of Invasive Ventilation. Crit Care Med 2024; 52:798-810. [PMID: 38193769 PMCID: PMC11018493 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000006187] [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] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVES To characterize health-related quality of life (HRQL) and functional recovery trajectories and risk factors for prolonged impairments among critically ill children receiving greater than or equal to 3 days of invasive ventilation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Quaternary children's hospital PICU. PATIENTS Children without a preexisting tracheostomy who received greater than or equal to 3 days of invasive ventilation, survived hospitalization, and completed greater than or equal to 1 postdischarge data collection. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS We evaluated 144 children measuring HRQL using proxy-report Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory and functional status using the Functional Status Scale (FSS) reflecting preillness baseline, PICU and hospital discharge, and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after hospital discharge. They had a median age of 5.3 years (interquartile range, 1.1-13.0 yr), 58 (40%) were female, 45 (31%) had a complex chronic condition, and 110 (76%) had normal preillness FSS scores. Respiratory failure etiologies included lung disease ( n = 49; 34%), neurologic failure ( n = 23; 16%), and septic shock ( n = 22; 15%). At 1-month postdischarge, 68 of 122 (56%) reported worsened HRQL and 35 (29%) had a new functional impairment compared with preillness baseline. This improved at 3 months to 54 (46%) and 24 (20%), respectively, and remained stable through the remaining 9 months of follow-up. We used interaction forests to evaluate relative variable importance including pairwise interactions and found that therapy consultation within 3 days of intubation was associated with better HRQL recovery in older patients and those with better preillness physical HRQL. During the postdischarge year, 76 patients (53%) had an emergency department visit or hospitalization, and 62 (43%) newly received physical, occupational, or speech therapy. CONCLUSIONS Impairments in HRQL and functional status as well as health resource use were common among children with acute respiratory failure. Early therapy consultation was a modifiable characteristic associated with shorter duration of worsened HRQL in older patients.
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- Aline B. Maddux
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
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- Research Institute, Pediatric Critical Care, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine and Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Dell Children’s Medical Center, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
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- Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s, Little Rock, AR
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Ankar A, Hermes E, Wheless C, Nguyen G, Townsend T, Risen S. Neurorehabilitation across the Continuum: From the Neurocritical care unit to home. Semin Pediatr Neurol 2024; 49:101121. [PMID: 38677800 DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2024.101121] [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: 11/01/2023] [Revised: 03/04/2024] [Accepted: 03/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024]
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Children admitted to neurocritical care units often experience new neurodevelopmental disabilities due to both their acquired neurologic injuries and deconditioning from prolonged hospitalizations. Rehabilitation for critically ill children is multifactorial and begins in the intensive care unit itself. The goals of rehabilitation include prevention of complications associated with immobilization and evolving tone, comprehensive evaluation and treatment of functional deficits, and implementation of adaptive strategies with the goal of maximizing recovery. As a child progresses along the medical continuum from the neurocritical care unit to acute care to post-hospitalization settings, their rehabilitative needs and interventions should also evolve. A child in the neurocritical care unit is likely to have sustained an acquired brain injury. Whether resulting from traumatic or non-traumatic causes, all etiologies of pediatric acquired brain injury can result in significant challenges for the child and their family. Post-intensive care syndrome-pediatrics is a clinical construct that that systematically organizes the range of physical, cognitive, psychological, and social symptoms that emerge in both a child and their family members following a critical illness. Ideally, outpatient care for this population evaluates and supports all areas of post-intensive care syndrome-pediatrics through an interdisciplinary clinical care model. Proactive and comprehensive rehabilitation across the continuum provides the opportunity to support the child and their family in all areas affected, thereby minimizing distress, maximizing function, and optimizing outcomes.
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- Alexander Ankar
- Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Department of Child Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences, USA
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- Texas Children's Hospital Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy, USA
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- Texas Children's Hospital Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy, USA
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- Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, USA
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- Texas Children's Hospital Department of Speech, Language and Learning, Texas Children's Hospital: 6701 Fannin St., Houston Texas, 77030, USA
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- Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Department of Child Neurology and Developmental Neurosciences, USA.
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Tsuji T, Sento Y, Kamimura Y, Kawasaki T, Sobue K. Rapid Response System and Limitations of Medical Treatment Among Children With Clinical Deterioration in Japan: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study. J Palliat Med 2024; 27:241-245. [PMID: 37851992 DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2023.0377] [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] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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Objective: We investigated the role of rapid response systems (RRSs) in limitations of medical treatment (LOMT) planning among children, their families, and health care providers. Methods: This multicenter retrospective cohort study examined children with clinical deterioration using the Japanese RRS registry between 2012 and 2021. Results: Children (n = 348) at 28 hospitals in Japan who required RRS calls were analyzed. Eleven (3%) of the 348 patients had LOMT before RRS calls and 11 (3%) had newly implemented LOMT after RRS calls. Patients with LOMT were significantly less likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit compared with those without (36% vs. 61%, p < 0.001) and were more likely to die within 30 days (45% vs. 11%, p < 0.001). Conclusions: LOMT issues existed in 6% of children who received RRS calls. RRS calls for clinically deteriorating children with LOMT were associated with less intensive care and higher mortality.
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- Tatsuya Tsuji
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
- Department of Anesthesiology, Okazaki City Hospital, Okazaki, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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- Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
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Horvat CM, Hamilton MF, Hall MW, McGuire JK, Mink RB. Child Health Needs and the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Workforce: 2020-2040. Pediatrics 2024; 153:e2023063678G. [PMID: 38300003 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-063678g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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This article, focused on the current and future pediatric critical care medicine (PCCM) workforce, is part of a supplement in Pediatrics anticipating the future supply of the pediatric subspecialty workforce. It draws on information available in the literature, data from the American Board of Pediatrics, and findings from a model that estimates the future supply of pediatric subspecialists developed by the American Board of Pediatrics Foundation in collaboration with the Carolina Workforce Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research and Strategic Modeling and Analysis Ltd. A brief history of the field of PCCM is provided, followed by an in-depth examination of the current PCCM workforce and a subsequent evaluation of workforce forecasts from 2020 to 2040. Under baseline conditions, the PCCM workforce is expected to increase by 105% during the forecasted period, more than any other pediatric subspecialty. Forecasts are modeled under a variety of multifactorial conditions meant to simulate the effects of changes to the supply of PCCM subspecialists, with only modest changes observed. Future PCCM workforce demand is unclear, although some suggest an oversupply may exist and that market forces may correct this. The findings generate important questions regarding the future state of the PCCM workforce and should be used to guide trainees considering a PCCM career, subspecialty leaders responsible for hosting training programs, staffing ICUs, and governing bodies that oversee training program accreditation and subspecialist certification.
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- Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
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- The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor, University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance, California
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Torrance, CA
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Pong S, Fowler RA, Fontela P, Gilfoyle E, Hutchison JS, Jouvet P, Mitsakakis N, Murthy S, Pernica JM, Rishu AH, Science M, Seto W, Daneman N. Association of delayed adequate antimicrobial treatment and organ dysfunction in pediatric bloodstream infections. Pediatr Res 2024; 95:705-711. [PMID: 37845523 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-023-02836-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2022] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are associated with significant mortality and morbidity, including multiple organ dysfunction. We explored if delayed adequate antimicrobial treatment for children with BSIs is associated with change in organ dysfunction as measured by PELOD-2 scores. METHODS We conducted a multicenter, retrospective cohort study of critically ill children <18 years old with BSIs. The primary outcome was change in PELOD-2 score between days 1 (index blood culture) and 5. The exposure variable was delayed administration of adequate antimicrobial therapy by ≥3 h from blood culture collection. We compared PELOD-2 score changes between those who received early and delayed treatment. RESULTS Among 202 children, the median (interquartile range) time to adequate antimicrobial therapy was 7 (0.8-20.1) hours; 124 (61%) received delayed antimicrobial therapy. Patients who received early and delayed treatment had similar baseline characteristics. There was no significant difference in PELOD-2 score changes from days 1 and 5 between groups (PELOD-2 score difference -0.07, 95% CI -0.92 to 0.79, p = 0.88). CONCLUSIONS We did not find an association between delayed adequate antimicrobial therapy and PELOD-2 score changes between days 1 and 5 from detection of BSI. PELOD-2 score was not sensitive for clinical effects of delayed antimicrobial treatment. IMPACT In critically ill children with bloodstream infections, there was no significant change in organ dysfunction as measured by PELOD-2 scores between patients who received adequate antimicrobial therapy within 3 h of their initial positive blood culture and those who started after 3 h. Higher PELOD-2 scores on day 1 were associated with larger differences in PELOD-2 scores between days 1 and 5 from index positive blood cultures. Further study is required to determine if PELOD-2 or alternative measures of organ dysfunction could be used as primary outcome measures in trials of antimicrobial interventions in pediatric critical care research.
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- Sandra Pong
- Department of Pharmacy, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Tory Trauma Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Sainte-Justine Hospital University Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacy, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Kaya S, Ekşi Bozbulut N. Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Children With Acute and Acuteon-Chronic Liver Failure: A Single-Center Experience. EXP CLIN TRANSPLANT 2024; 22:88-95. [PMID: 38385381 DOI: 10.6002/ect.mesot2023.o12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Acute liver failure is a life-threatening condition that may result in death if liver transplant is not performed. The aim of our study was to evaluate patients with acute liver failure or acute-on-chronic liver failure who were followed and treated with therapeutic plasma exchange in a pediatric intensive care unit until they achieved clinical recovery or underwent liver transplant. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this retrospective, singlecenter study, we included patients with acute liver failure or acute-on-chronic liver failure who received therapeutic plasma exchange between April 2020 and December 2021. Clinical findings, laboratory findings, extracorporeal therapies, Pediatric Risk of Mortality III and liver injury unit scores and pretherapy and posttherapy hepatic encephalopathy scores, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score, and Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease score were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Nineteen patients were included in the study. One patient was excluded because of positivity for COVID-19. The mean age of children was 62.06 months, ranging from 5 months to 16 years (12 boys, 6 girls). Thirteen patients (72.2%) had acute liver failure, and 5 patients (27.8%) had acute-on-chronic liver failure. No significant difference was shown for mean liver injury unit score (P = .673) and Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction score (P = .168) between patients who died and patients who received treatment at the inpatient clinic and transplant center. However, Pediatric Risk of Mortality score and the mean Model for End-Stage Liver Disease/Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease scores before therapeutic plasma exchange and after therapeutic plasma exchange (after 3 consecutive days of treatment) were statistically significant (P = .001 and P = .004). CONCLUSIONS Therapeutic plasma exchange may assist bridge to liver transplant or assist with spontaneous recovery of liver failure in pediatric patients with acute liver failure or acute-on-chronic liver failure.
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- Sadık Kaya
- From the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Hatay Research and Education Hospital, Hatay, Turkey
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Killien EY, Watson RS, Banks RK, Reeder RW, Meert KL, Zimmerman JJ. Predicting functional and quality-of-life outcomes following pediatric sepsis: performance of PRISM-III and PELOD-2. Pediatr Res 2023; 94:1951-1957. [PMID: 37185949 PMCID: PMC10860342 DOI: 10.1038/s41390-023-02619-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Revised: 03/28/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Illness severity scores predict mortality following pediatric critical illness. Given declining PICU mortality, we assessed the ability of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality-III (PRISM) and Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2 (PELOD) scores to predict morbidity outcomes. METHODS Among 359 survivors <18 years in the Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation multicenter prospective cohort study, we assessed functional morbidity at hospital discharge (Functional Status Scale increase ≥3 points from baseline) and health-related quality of life (HRQL; Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory or Functional Status II-R) deterioration >25% from baseline at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months post-admission. We determined discrimination of admission PRISM and admission, maximum, and cumulative 28-day PELOD with functional and HRQL morbidity at each timepoint. RESULTS Cumulative PELOD provided the best discrimination of discharge functional morbidity (area under the receive operating characteristics curve [AUROC] 0.81, 95% CI 0.76-0.87) and 3-month HRQL deterioration (AUROC 0.71, 95% CI 0.61-0.81). Prediction was inferior for admission PRISM and PELOD and for 6- and 12-month HRQL assessments. CONCLUSIONS Illness severity scores have a good prediction of early functional morbidity but a more limited ability to predict longer-term HRQL. Identification of factors beyond illness severity that contribute to HRQL outcomes may offer opportunities for intervention to improve outcomes. IMPACT Illness severity scores are commonly used for mortality prediction and risk stratification in pediatric critical care research, quality improvement, and resource allocation algorithms. Prediction of morbidity rather than mortality may be beneficial given declining pediatric intensive care unit mortality. The PRISM and PELOD scores have moderate to good ability to predict new functional morbidity at hospital discharge following pediatric septic shock but limited ability to predict health-related quality of life outcomes in the year following PICU admission. Further research is needed to identify additional factors beyond illness severity that may impact post-discharge health-related quality of life.
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- Elizabeth Y Killien
- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Center for Child Health, Behavior, & Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA
- Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
- Center for Clinical & Translational Research, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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Kolli S, Opolka C, Westbrook A, Gillespie S, Mason C, Truitt B, Kamat P, Fitzpatrick A, Grunwell JR. Outcomes of children with life-threatening status asthmaticus requiring isoflurane therapy and extracorporeal life support. J Asthma 2023; 60:1926-1934. [PMID: 36927245 PMCID: PMC10524452 DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2023.2191715] [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: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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BACKGROUND Severe, refractory asthma is a life-threatening emergency that may be treated with isoflurane and extracorporeal life support. The objective of this study was to describe the clinical response to isoflurane and outcomes after discharge of children who received isoflurane and/or extracorporeal life-support for near-fatal asthma. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study using electronic medical record data from two pediatric intensive care units within a single healthcare system in Atlanta, GA. RESULTS Forty-five children received isoflurane, and 14 children received extracorporeal life support, 9 without a trial of isoflurane. Hypercarbia and acidosis improved within four hours of starting isoflurane. Four children died during the index admission for asthma. Twenty-seven percent had a change in Functional Status Score of three or more points from baseline to PICU discharge. Patients had median percent predicted FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratios pre- and post-bronchodilator values below normal pediatric values. CONCLUSION Children who received isoflurane and/or ECLS had a high frequency of previous PICU admission and intubation. Improvement in ventilation and acidosis occurred within the first four hours of starting isoflurane. Children who required isoflurane or ECLS may develop long-lasting deficits in their functional status. Children with near-fatal asthma are a high-risk group and require improved follow-up in the year following PICU discharge.
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- Sneha Kolli
- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA
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- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Pediatric Biostatistics Core, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Pediatric Biostatistics Core, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA
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- Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Atlanta, GA
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, Atlanta, GA
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Cheung C, Kernan KF, Berg RA, Zuppa AF, Notterman DA, Pollack MM, Wessel D, Meert KL, Hall MW, Newth C, Lin JC, Doctor A, Shanley T, Cornell T, Harrison RE, Banks RK, Reeder RW, Holubkov R, Carcillo JA, Fink EL. Acute Disorders of Consciousness in Pediatric Severe Sepsis and Organ Failure: Secondary Analysis of the Multicenter Phenotyping Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Failure Study. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2023; 24:840-848. [PMID: 37314247 PMCID: PMC10719421 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Acute disorders of consciousness (DoC) in pediatric severe sepsis are associated with increased risk of morbidity and mortality. We sought to examine the frequency of and factors associated with DoC in children with sepsis-induced organ failure. DESIGN Secondary analysis of the multicenter Phenotyping Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Failure Study (PHENOMS). SETTING Nine tertiary care PICUs in the United States. PATIENTS Children less than 18 years old admitted to a PICU with severe sepsis and at least one organ failure during a PICU stay. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS The primary outcome was frequency of DoC, defined as Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) less than 12 in the absence of sedatives during an ICU stay, among children with severe sepsis and the following: single organ failure, nonphenotypeable multiple organ failure (MOF), MOF with one of the PHENOMS phenotypes (immunoparalysis-associated MOF [IPMOF], sequential liver failure-associated MOF, thrombocytopenia-associated MOF), or MOF with multiple phenotypes. A multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the association between clinical variables and organ failure groups with DoC. Of 401 children studied, 71 (18%) presented with DoC. Children presenting with DoC were older (median 8 vs 5 yr; p = 0.023), had increased hospital mortality (21% vs 10%; p = 0.011), and more frequently presented with both any MOF (93% vs 71%; p < 0.001) and macrophage activation syndrome (14% vs 4%; p = 0.004). Among children with any MOF, those presenting with DoC most frequently had nonphenotypeable MOF and IPMOF (52% and 34%, respectively). In the multivariable analysis, older age (odds ratio, 1.07; 95% CI, 1.01-1.12) and any MOF (3.22 [1.19-8.70]) were associated with DoC. CONCLUSIONS One of every five children with severe sepsis and organ failure experienced acute DoC during their PICU stay. Preliminary findings suggest the need for prospective evaluation of DoC in children with sepsis and MOF.
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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Miksa M. Beyond Survival: Insights From the Phenotyping Sepsis-Induced Multiple Organ Failure Study on the Neurological Impact of Pediatric Sepsis. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2023; 24:877-880. [PMID: 38412371 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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- Michael Miksa
- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY
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Kobayashi K, Higgins T, Liu C, Ayodeji M, Wernovsky G, Jonas RA, Ishibashi N. Defining the optimal historical control group for a phase 1 trial of mesenchymal stromal cell delivery through cardiopulmonary bypass in neonates and infants. Cardiol Young 2023; 33:1523-1528. [PMID: 35989537 PMCID: PMC9995118 DOI: 10.1017/s1047951122002633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Delivery through Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery study is a prospective, open-label, single-centre, dose-escalation phase 1 trial assessing the safety/feasibility of delivering mesenchymal stromal cells to neonates/infants during cardiac surgery. Outcomes will be compared with historical data from a similar population. We aim to define an optimal control group for use in the Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Delivery through Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery trial. METHODS Consecutive patients who underwent a two-ventricle repair without aortic arch reconstruction within the first 6 months of life between 2015 and 2020 were studied using the same inclusion/exclusion criteria as the Phase 1 Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Delivery through Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery trial (n = 169). Patients were allocated into one of three diagnostic groups: ventricular septal defect type, Tetralogy of Fallot type, and transposition of the great arteries type. To determine era effect, patients were analysed in two groups: Group A (2015-2017) and B (2018-2020). In addition to biological markers, three post-operative scoring methods (inotropic and vasoactive-inotropic scores and the Pediatric Risk of Mortality-III) were assessed. RESULTS All values for three scoring systems were consistent with complexity of cardiac anomalies. Max inotropic and vasoactive-inotropic scores demonstrated significant differences between all diagnosis groups, confirming high sensitivity. Despite no differences in surgical factors between era groups, we observed lower inotropic and vasoactive-inotropic scores in group B, consistent with improved post-operative course in recent years at our centre. CONCLUSIONS Our studies confirm max inotropic and vasoactive-inotropic scores as important quantitative measures after neonatal/infant cardiac surgery. Clinical outcomes should be compared within diagnostic groupings. The optimal control group should include only patients from a recent era. This initial study will help to determine the sample size of future efficacy/effectiveness studies.
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- Kei Kobayashi
- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- Children’s National Heart Institute, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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- Children’s National Heart Institute, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- Children’s National Heart Institute, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- Center for Neuroscience Research and Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- Children’s National Heart Institute, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
- The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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Melhado CG, Kao E, Hogan-Schlientz J, Crane D, Shui AM, Stephens CQ, Evans L, Burd RS, Jensen AR. Interrater reliability of chart-based assessment of functional impairment after pediatric injury using the functional status scale. J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2023; 95:391-396. [PMID: 37012628 DOI: 10.1097/ta.0000000000003912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND Functional impairment has been proposed as an alternative outcome for quality improvement in pediatric trauma. The functional status scale (FSS) has been used in studies of injured children, but has only been validated with resource-intensive in-person assessment. Implementation with retrospective chart-based FSS assessment would offer a simplified and scalable alternative. The purpose of this study was to evaluate interrater reliability of retrospective FSS assessment and to identify factors associated with unreliable assessment. METHODS A retrospective cohort of admissions to a Level I pediatric trauma center between July 2020 and June 2021 was analyzed. Two physicians and two nurse registrars reviewed charts to obtain measures of six FSS domains (mental status, sensory functioning, communication, motor functioning, feeding, and respiratory status) at discharge. Functional impairment was categorized by total FSS scores as good (6,7), mild impairment (8,9), moderate impairment (10-15), severe impairment (16-21), or very severe impairment (>21). Interrater reliability was assessed using intraclass correlation (ICC). Predictors of rater disagreement were evaluated using multivariable logistic regression. RESULTS The cohort included 443 children with a mean age of 7.4 years (standard deviation, 5.4 years) and median Injury Severity Score of 9 (interquartile range, 5-12). The median time per chart to assess FSS was 2 minutes (interquartile range, 1-2). Thirty-seven patients (8%) had functional impairment at discharge. Interrater reliability was excellent for total FSS score (ICC = 0.87) and good for FSS impairment categorization (ICC = 0.80). Rater disagreement of functional impairment categorization occurred in 14% of cases overall. Higher level of functional impairment and use of therapies (occupational and speech language therapy) were independently associated with more frequent rater disagreement. CONCLUSION Chart-based FSS assessment is feasible and reliable, but may require more detailed review for patients with higher level of impairment that require allied health therapy. Validation of chart-based assessment is needed before widespread implementation. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Prognostic/Epidemiological, Level III.
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- Caroline G Melhado
- From the Division of Pediatric Surgery (C.G.M., E.K., C.Q.S., L.E., A.R.J.), UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals; Department of Surgery (C.G.M., E.K., C.Q.S., L.E., A.R.J.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco; Trauma Program (J.H.-S., D.C., A.R.J.), UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland; Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (A.M.S.), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery (R.S.B.), Children's National Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia
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O'Hearn K, Menon K, Weiler HA, Amrein K, Fergusson D, Gunz A, Bustos R, Campos R, Catalan V, Roedl S, Tsampalieros A, Barrowman N, Geier P, Henderson M, Khamessan A, Lawson ML, McIntyre L, Redpath S, Jones G, Kaufmann M, McNally D. A phase II dose evaluation pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial of cholecalciferol in critically ill children with vitamin D deficiency (VITdAL-PICU study). BMC Pediatr 2023; 23:397. [PMID: 37580663 PMCID: PMC10424361 DOI: 10.1186/s12887-023-04205-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/16/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is highly prevalent in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) and associated with worse clinical course. Trials in adult ICU demonstrate rapid restoration of vitamin D status using an enteral loading dose is safe and may improve outcomes. There have been no published trials of rapid normalization of VDD in the pediatric ICU. METHODS We conducted a multicenter placebo-controlled phase II pilot feasibility randomized clinical trial from 2016 to 2017. We randomized 67 critically ill children with VDD from ICUs in Canada, Chile and Austria using a 2:1 randomization ratio to receive a loading dose of enteral cholecalciferol (10,000 IU/kg, maximum of 400,000 IU) or placebo. Participants, care givers, and outcomes assessors were blinded. The primary objective was to determine whether the loading dose normalized vitamin D status (25(OH)D > 75 nmol/L). Secondary objectives were to evaluate for adverse events and assess the feasibility of a phase III trial. RESULTS Of 67 randomized participants, one was withdrawn and seven received more than one dose of cholecalciferol before the protocol was amended to a single loading dose, leaving 59 participants in the primary analyses (40 treatment, 19 placebo). Thirty-one/38 (81.6%) participants in the treatment arm achieved a plasma 25(OH)D concentration > 75 nmol/L versus 1/18 (5.6%) the placebo arm. The mean 25(OH)D concentration in the treatment arm was 125.9 nmol/L (SD 63.4). There was no evidence of vitamin D toxicity and no major drug or safety protocol violations. The accrual rate was 3.4 patients/month, supporting feasibility of a larger trial. A day 7 blood sample was collected for 84% of patients. A survey administered to 40 participating families showed that health-related quality of life (HRQL) was the most important outcome for families for the main trial (30, 75%). CONCLUSIONS A single 10,000 IU/kg dose can rapidly and safely normalize plasma 25(OH)D concentrations in critically ill children with VDD, but with significant variability in 25(OH)D concentrations. We established that a phase III multicentre trial is feasible. Using an outcome collected after hospital discharge (HRQL) will require strategies to minimize loss-to-follow-up. TRIAL REGISTRATION CLINICALTRIALS gov NCT02452762 Registered 25/05/2015.
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- Katie O'Hearn
- Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada
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- Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, N6A 5W9, Canada
- Child Health Research Institute, London, ON, N6A 5W9, Canada
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- Clínica Sanatorio Alemán, Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos, Concepción, Chile
- Facultad de Medicine Y Ciencia, UCI Pediátrica Hospital Guillermo Grant Benavente Concepción, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile
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- Clínica Sanatorio Alemán, Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos, Concepción, Chile
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- Clínica Sanatorio Alemán, Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Pediátricos, Concepción, Chile
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- Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Joint Facilities, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Clinical Research Unit, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada
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- Clinical Research Unit, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Newborn Screening Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Euro-Pharm International Canada Inc, Montreal, Canada
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- Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Medicine (Division of Critical Care), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
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- Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON, K1H 8L1, Canada.
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
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O'Hara JE, Buchmiller TL, Bechard LJ, Akhondi-Asl A, Visner G, Sheils C, Becker R, Studley M, Lemire L, Mullen MP, Vitali S, Mehta NM, Dickie B, Zalieckas JM, Albert BD. Long-Term Functional Outcomes at 1-Year After Hospital Discharge in Critically Ill Neonates With Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2023; 24:e372-e381. [PMID: 37098788 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000003249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a birth defect associated with long-term morbidity. Our objective was to examine longitudinal change in Functional Status Scale (FSS) after hospital discharge in CDH survivors. DESIGN Single-center retrospective cohort study. SETTING Center for comprehensive CDH management at a quaternary, free-standing children's hospital. PATIENTS Infants with Bochdalek CDH were admitted to the ICU between January 2009 and December 2019 and survived until hospital discharge. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS One hundred forty-two infants (58% male, mean birth weight 3.08 kg, 80% left-sided defects) met inclusion criteria. Relevant clinical data were extracted from the medical record to calculate FSS (primary outcome) at hospital discharge and three subsequent outpatient follow-up time points. The median (interquartile range [IQR]) FSS score at hospital discharge was 8.0 (7.0-9.0); 39 patients (27.5%) had at least moderate impairment (FSS ≥ 9). Median (IQR) FSS at 0- to 6-month ( n = 141), 6- to 12-month ( n = 141), and over 12-month ( n = 140) follow-up visits were 7.0 (7.0-8.0), 7.0 (6.0-8.0), and 6.0 (6.0-7.0), respectively. Twenty-one patients (15%) had at least moderate impairment at over 12-month follow-up; median composite FSS scores in the over 12-month time point decreased by 2.0 points from hospital discharge. Median feeding domain scores improved by 1.0 (1.0-2.0), whereas other domain scores remained without impairment. Multivariable analysis demonstrated right-sided, C- or D-size defects, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and chromosomal anomalies were associated with impairment. CONCLUSIONS The majority of CDH survivors at our center had mild functional status impairment (FSS ≤ 8) at discharge and 1-year follow-up; however, nearly 15% of patients had moderate impairment during this time period. The feeding domain had the highest level of functional impairment. We observed unchanged or improving functional status longitudinally over 1-year follow-up after hospital discharge. Longitudinal outcomes will guide interdisciplinary management strategies in CDH survivors.
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- Jill E O'Hara
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Perioperative and Critical Care-Center for Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (PC-CORE), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
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Munjal NK, Clark RSB, Simon DW, Kochanek PM, Horvat CM. Interoperable and explainable machine learning models to predict morbidity and mortality in acute neurological injury in the pediatric intensive care unit: secondary analysis of the TOPICC study. Front Pediatr 2023; 11:1177470. [PMID: 37456559 PMCID: PMC10338865 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2023.1177470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Background Acute neurological injury is a leading cause of permanent disability and death in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). No predictive model has been validated for critically ill children with acute neurological injury. Objectives We hypothesized that PICU patients with concern for acute neurological injury are at higher risk for morbidity and mortality, and advanced analytics would derive robust, explainable subgroup models. Methods We performed a secondary subgroup analysis of the Trichotomous Outcomes in Pediatric Critical Care (TOPICC) study (2011-2013), predicting mortality and morbidity from admission physiology (lab values and vital signs in 6 h surrounding admission). We analyzed patients with suspected acute neurological injury using standard machine learning algorithms. Feature importance was analyzed using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP). We created a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application to demonstrate potential for interoperability using pragmatic data. Results 1,860 patients had suspected acute neurological injury at PICU admission, with higher morbidity (8.2 vs. 3.4%) and mortality (6.2 vs. 1.9%) than those without similar concern. The ensemble regressor (containing Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, and Support Vector Machine learners) produced the best model, with Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (AUROC) of 0.91 [95% CI (0.88, 0.94)] and Average Precision (AP) of 0.59 [0.51, 0.69] for mortality, and decreased performance predicting simultaneous mortality and morbidity (0.83 [0.80, 0.86] and 0.59 [0.51, 0.64]); at a set specificity of 0.995, positive predictive value (PPV) was 0.79 for mortality, and 0.88 for mortality and morbidity. By comparison, for mortality, the TOPICC logistic regression had AUROC of 0.90 [0.84, 0.93], but substantially inferior AP of 0.49 [0.35, 0.56] and PPV of 0.60 at specificity 0.995. Feature importance analysis showed that pupillary non-reactivity, Glasgow Coma Scale, and temperature were the most contributory vital signs, and acidosis and coagulopathy the most important laboratory values. The FHIR application provided a simulated demonstration of real-time health record query and model deployment. Conclusions PICU patients with suspected acute neurological injury have higher mortality and morbidity. Our machine learning approach independently identified previously-known causes of secondary brain injury. Advanced modeling achieves improved positive predictive value in this important population compared to published models, providing a stepping stone in the path to deploying explainable models as interoperable bedside decision-support tools.
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- Neil K. Munjal
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI, United States
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
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Dannenberg VC, Rovedder PME, Carvalho PRA. Long-term functional outcomes of children after critical illnesses: A cohort study. Med Intensiva 2023; 47:280-288. [PMID: 36344345 DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2022.02.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To assess children's functional outcomes one year after critical illness and identify which factors influenced these functional outcomes. DESIGN Ambispective cohort study. SETTING Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a tertiary academic center. PARTICIPANTS Children (1 month-17-year-old) and their caregivers. INTERVENTIONS None. MAIN VARIABLES OF INTEREST Demographic, clinical, and functional status. RESULTS Of 242 patients screened, 128 completed the year follow-up. These children had significant changes in functional status over time (p<0.001). The functional decline occurred in 62% of children at discharge and, after one year, was persistent in 33%. Age>12 months was a protective factor against poor functional outcomes in two regression models (p<0.05). A moderately abnormal functional status and a severely/very severely abnormal functional status at discharge increased the risks of poor functional outcomes by 4.14 (95% CI 1.02-16.72; p=0.04), and 4.76 (CI 95% 1.19-19.0; p=0.02). A functional decline at discharge increased by 6.86 (95%CI: 2.16-21.79; p=0.001) the risks of children's long-term poor functional outcomes, regardless of the FSS scores. CONCLUSION This is the first study evaluating long-term functional outcomes after pediatric critical illnesses in Latin America. Our findings show baseline data and raise relevant questions for future multicentre studies in this field in Latin America, contributing to a better understanding of the effects of critical illnesses on long-term functional outcomes in children.
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- V C Dannenberg
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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- Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança, (ESEFID), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde da Criança e do Adolescente, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil; Departamento de Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Berg RA, Morgan RW, Reeder RW, Ahmed T, Bell MJ, Bishop R, Bochkoris M, Burns C, Carcillo JA, Carpenter TC, Dean JM, Diddle JW, Federman M, Fernandez R, Fink EL, Franzon D, Frazier AH, Friess SH, Graham K, Hall M, Hehir DA, Horvat CM, Huard LL, Maa T, Manga A, McQuillen PS, Meert KL, Mourani PM, Nadkarni VM, Naim MY, Notterman D, Palmer CA, Pollack MM, Sapru A, Schneiter C, Sharron MP, Srivastava N, Tabbutt S, Tilford B, Viteri S, Wessel D, Wolfe HA, Yates AR, Zuppa AF, Sutton RM. Diastolic Blood Pressure Threshold During Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Survival Outcomes: A Multicenter Validation Study. Crit Care Med 2023; 51:91-102. [PMID: 36519983 PMCID: PMC9970166 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Arterial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) greater than 25 mm Hg in infants and greater than 30 mm Hg in children greater than 1 year old during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was associated with survival to hospital discharge in one prospective study. We sought to validate these potential hemodynamic targets in a larger multicenter cohort. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Eighteen PICUs in the ICU-RESUScitation prospective trial from October 2016 to March 2020. PATIENTS Children less than or equal to 18 years old with CPR greater than 30 seconds and invasive blood pressure (BP) monitoring during CPR. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Invasive BP waveform data and Utstein-style CPR data were collected, including prearrest patient characteristics, intra-arrest interventions, and outcomes. Primary outcome was survival to hospital discharge, and secondary outcomes were return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurologic outcome. Multivariable Poisson regression models with robust error estimates evaluated the association of DBP greater than 25 mm Hg in infants and greater than 30 mm Hg in older children with these outcomes. Among 1,129 children with inhospital cardiac arrests, 413 had evaluable DBP data. Overall, 85.5% of the patients attained thresholds of mean DBP greater than or equal to 25 mm Hg in infants and greater than or equal to 30 mm Hg in older children. Initial return of circulation occurred in 91.5% and 25% by placement on extracorporeal membrane oxygenator. Survival to hospital discharge occurred in 58.6%, and survival with favorable neurologic outcome in 55.4% (i.e. 94.6% of survivors had favorable neurologic outcomes). Mean DBP greater than 25 mm Hg for infants and greater than 30 mm Hg for older children was significantly associated with survival to discharge (adjusted relative risk [aRR], 1.32; 1.01-1.74; p = 0.03) and ROSC (aRR, 1.49; 1.12-1.97; p = 0.002) but did not reach significance for survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurologic outcome (aRR, 1.30; 0.98-1.72; p = 0.051). CONCLUSIONS These validation data demonstrate that achieving mean DBP during CPR greater than 25 mm Hg for infants and greater than 30 mm Hg for older children is associated with higher rates of survival to hospital discharge, providing potential targets for DBP during CPR.
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- Robert A Berg
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, Detroit, MI
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
- Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, Detroit, MI
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Little Rock, AR
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, Detroit, MI
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- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE
- Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Ellen Pittman
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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Spear MB, Miller K, Press C, Ruzas C, LaVelle J, Mourani PM, Bennett TD, Maddux AB. Unplanned Admissions, Emergency Department Visits, and Epilepsy After Critical Neurological Illness Requiring Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Children. Neurohospitalist 2023; 13:31-39. [PMID: 36531841 PMCID: PMC9755613 DOI: 10.1177/19418744221123628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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Background and Purpose Long-term outcomes after pediatric neurocritical illness are poorly characterized. This study aims to characterize the frequency and risk factors for post-discharge unplanned health resource use in a pediatric neurocritical care population using insurance claims data. Methods Retrospective cohort study evaluating children who survived a hospitalization for an acute neurologic illness or injury requiring mechanical ventilation for >72 hours and had insurance eligibility in Colorado's All Payers Claims database. Insurance claims identified unplanned readmissions and emergency department [ED] visits during the post-discharge year. For patients without pre-existing epilepsy/seizures, we evaluated for post-ICU epilepsy identified by claim(s) for a maintenance anti-seizure medication during months 6-12 post-discharge. Multivariable logistic regression identified factors associated with each outcome. Results 101 children, median age 3.7 years (interquartile range (IQR) .4-11.9), admitted for trauma (57%), hypoxic-ischemic injury (17%) and seizures (15%). During the post-discharge year, 4 (4%) patients died, 26 (26%) were readmitted, and 48 (48%) had an ED visit. Having a pre-existing complex chronic condition was independently associated with readmission and emergency department visit. Admission for trauma was protective against readmission. Of those without pre-existing seizures (n = 86), 25 (29%) developed post-ICU epilepsy. Acute seizures during admission and prolonged ICU stays were independently associated with post-ICU epilepsy. Conclusions Survivors of pediatric neurocritical illness are at risk of unplanned healthcare use and post-ICU epilepsy. Critical illness risk factors including prolonged ICU stay and acute seizures may identify cohorts for targeted follow up or interventions to prevent unplanned healthcare use and post-ICU epilepsy.
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- Matthew B. Spear
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s, Little Rock, AR, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Informatics and Data Science, Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
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Ward SL, VanBuren JM, Richards R, Holubkov R, Alvey JS, Jensen AR, Pollack MM, Burd RS. Evaluating the association between obesity and discharge functional status after pediatric injury. J Pediatr Surg 2022; 57:598-605. [PMID: 35090717 PMCID: PMC9808528 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2021] [Revised: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Children with obesity frequently have functional impairment after critical illness. Although obesity increases morbidity risk after trauma, the association with functional outcomes in children is unknown. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association of weight with functional impairment at hospital discharge in children with serious injuries. METHODS This secondary analysis of a multicenter prospective study included children <15 years old with a serious injury. Four weight groups, underweight, healthy weight, overweight, and obesity/severe obesity were defined by body mass index z-scores. The functional status scale (FSS) measured impairment across six functional domains before injury and at hospital discharge. New domain morbidity was defined as a change ≥2 points. The association between weight and functional impairment was determined using logistic regression adjusting for demographics, physiological measures, injury details, presence of a severe head injury, and physical abuse. RESULTS Although most patients discharged with good/unchanged functional status, new domain morbidity occurred in 74 patients (17%). New FSS domain morbidity occurred in 13% of underweight, 14% of healthy weight, 15% of overweight, and 26% of obese/severe obese patients. Compared to healthy weight patients, those with obesity had more frequent new domain morbidity (p = 0.01), while the other weight groups had similar morbidity. However, after adjustment for confounders, weight was not associated with new functional morbidity at discharge. CONCLUSION Patients with obesity have greater frequency of new domain morbidity after a serious injury; however, after accounting for injury characteristics, weight group is not independently associated with new functional morbidity at hospital discharge after injury in children. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE III.
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- Shan L Ward
- Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals Oakland, Oakland, CA, United States; Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco and Division of Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, Oakland, CA, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Health System and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, United States
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- Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life and Functional Outcomes after Pediatric Trauma Project Investigators
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Risks for death after admission to pediatric intensive care (PICU)-A comparison with the general population. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0265792. [PMID: 36206205 PMCID: PMC9543762 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE/AIM The aim of the study was to quantify excess mortality in children after admission to a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), compared to the age and sex matched general Swedish population. DESIGN Single-center, retrospective cohort study. SETTING Registry study of hospital registers, a national population register and Statistics Sweden. PATIENTS Children admitted to a tertiary PICU in Sweden in 2008-2016. INTERVENTIONS None. MAIN RESULTS In total, 6,487 admissions (4,682 patients) were included in the study. During the study period 444 patients died. Median follow-up time for the entire PICU cohort was 7.2 years (IQR 5.0-9.9 years). Patients were divided into four different age groups (0-28 d, > 28 d -1 yr, > 1-4 yr, and > 4 yr) and four different risk stratification groups [Predicted Death Rate (PDR) intervals: 0-10%, > 10-25%, > 25-50%, and > 50%] at admission. Readmission was seen in 929 (19.8%) patients. The Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMRs) were calculated using the matched Swedish population as a reference group. The SMR for the entire study group was 49.8 (95% CI: 44.8-55.4). For patients with repeated PICU admissions SMR was 108.0 (95% CI: 91.9-126.9), and after four years 33.9 (95% CI: 23.9-48.0). Patients with a single admission had a SMR of 35.2 (95% CI: 30.5-40.6), and after four years 11.0 (95% CI: 7.0-17.6). The highest SMRs were seen in readmitted children with oncology/hematology (SMR = 358) and neurologic (SMR = 192) diagnosis. Children aged >1-4 years showed the highest SMR (325). In PDR group 0-10% children with repeated PICU admissions (n = 798), had a SMR of 100. CONCLUSION Compared to the matched Swedish population, SMRs were greatly elevated up to four years after PICU admission, declining from over 100 to 33 for patients with repeated PICU admissions, and from 35 to 11 for patients with a single PICU admission.
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Andrade RC, Leite ACAB, Alvarenga WDA, Neris RR, Araújo JS, Polita NB, Silva-Rodrigues FM, De Bortoli PS, Jacob E, Nascimento LC. Parental psychosocial needs in Brazilian paediatric intensive care units. Intensive Crit Care Nurs 2022; 72:103277. [PMID: 35672209 DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2022.103277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Having children admitted in the intensive care unit is a demanding experience for parents. They encounter several difficulties during this process, and it is important to properly identify their psychosocial needs for the health team to address appropriately. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to identify the psychosocial needs encountered by parents of children in pediatric intensive care units in Brazil. METHODS A descriptive study with a qualitative approach was used to increase understanding of psychosocial experiences of parents. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 parents of hospitalized children in pediatric intensive care units in Brazil. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. The university ethics review committee approved the research protocol. All parents were informed on study details and provided written consent prior to the interview. RESULTS Four themes were constructed: 1) Support from family and peers; 2) Support from the healthcare team; 3) Parental role; and 4) Emotional recovery. Parents expressed diverse psychosocial needs based on family and peer social support, child's clinical condition, as well as the structure, norms, and routines of health care teams during hospitalization. CONCLUSIONS The findings highlight the importance of nursing assessment of psychosocial experiences encountered by parents of children in pediatric intensive care units, which will guide planning of individualized interventions and to increase family-centered care in pediatric intensive care units.
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- Rosyan Carvalho Andrade
- Centro Universitário de Lavras, Rua Padre José Poggel, 506, Centenario, Lavras, Minas Gerais 37200-000, Brazil
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- Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. dos Bandeirantes, 3900, Campus Universitário, Bairro Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. dos Bandeirantes, 3900, Campus Universitário, Bairro Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Av. Fernando Machado, 108E, Centro, Chapecó, Santa Catarina 89801-501, Brazil
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- Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, PR-445, Km 380, Campus Universitário, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil
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- Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. dos Bandeirantes, 3900, Campus Universitário, Bairro Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, Factor Bldg, 700 Tiverton Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
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- Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. dos Bandeirantes, 3900, Campus Universitário, Bairro Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Matthew P Kirschen
- Both authors: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Maddux AB, Berbert L, Young CC, Feldstein LR, Zambrano LD, Kucukak S, Newhams MM, Miller K, FitzGerald MM, He J, Halasa NB, Cvijanovich NZ, Loftis LL, Walker TC, Schwartz SP, Gertz SJ, Tarquinio KM, Fitzgerald JC, Kong M, Schuster JE, Mack EH, Hobbs CV, Rowan CM, Staat MA, Zinter MS, Irby K, Crandall H, Flori H, Cullimore ML, Nofziger RA, Shein SL, Gaspers MG, Hume JR, Levy ER, Chen SR, Patel MM, Tenforde MW, Weller E, Campbell AP, Randolph AG. Health Impairments in Children and Adolescents After Hospitalization for Acute COVID-19 or MIS-C. Pediatrics 2022; 150:e2022057798. [PMID: 35765138 PMCID: PMC10281852 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2022-057798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate risk factors for postdischarge sequelae in children and adolescents hospitalized for acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). METHODS Multicenter prospective cohort study conducted in 25 United States pediatric hospitals. Patients <21-years-old, hospitalized May 2020 to May 2021 for acute COVID-19 or MIS-C with follow-up 2 to 4 months after admission. We assessed readmissions, persistent symptoms or activity impairment, and new morbidities. Multivariable regression was used to calculate adjusted risk ratios (aRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS Of 358 eligible patients, 2 to 4 month survey data were available for 119 of 155 (76.8%) with acute COVID-19 and 160 of 203 (78.8%) with MIS-C. Thirteen (11%) patients with acute COVID-19 and 12 (8%) with MIS-C had a readmission. Thirty-two (26.9%) patients with acute COVID-19 had persistent symptoms (22.7%) or activity impairment (14.3%) and 48 (30.0%) with MIS-C had persistent symptoms (20.0%) or activity impairment (21.3%). For patients with acute COVID-19, persistent symptoms (aRR, 1.29 [95% CI, 1.04-1.59]) and activity impairment (aRR, 1.37 [95% CI, 1.06-1.78]) were associated with more organ systems involved. Patients with MIS-C and pre-existing respiratory conditions more frequently had persistent symptoms (aRR, 3.09 [95% CI, 1.55-6.14]) and those with obesity more frequently had activity impairment (aRR, 2.52 [95% CI, 1.35-4.69]). New morbidities were infrequent (9% COVID-19, 1% MIS-C). CONCLUSIONS Over 1 in 4 children hospitalized with acute COVID-19 or MIS-C experienced persistent symptoms or activity impairment for at least 2 months. Patients with MIS-C and respiratory conditions or obesity are at higher risk of prolonged recovery.
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- Aline B Maddux
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Biostatistics and Research Design Center, Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- COVID-19 Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- COVID-19 Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Biostatistics and Research Design Center, Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland, California
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- Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, New Jersey
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
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- Department of Pediatrics, Department of Microbiology, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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- Section of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Mott Children's Hospital and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
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- Division of Critical Care Medicine, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio
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- University of Arizona, Diamond Children's Banner Children's Medical Center, Tucson, Arizona
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
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- COVID-19 Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- COVID-19 Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Biostatistics and Research Design Center, Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Departments of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- COVID-19 Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
- Departments of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Maddux AB, VanBuren JM, Jensen AR, Holubkov R, Alvey JS, McQuillen P, Mourani PM, Meert KL, Burd RS. Post-discharge rehabilitation and functional recovery after pediatric injury. Injury 2022; 53:2795-2803. [PMID: 35680434 PMCID: PMC9808527 DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2022.05.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Variability in rehabilitation disposition has been proposed as a trauma center quality metric. Benchmarking rehabilitation disposition is limited by a lack of objective measures of functional impairment at discharge. The primary aim of this study was to determine the relative contribution of patient characteristics and hospitalization factors associated with inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation after discharge. The secondary aims were to evaluate the sensitivity of the Functional Status Scale (FSS) score for identifying functional impairments at hospital discharge and track post-discharge recovery. PATIENTS AND METHODS We report a planned secondary analysis of a prospective observational study of seriously injured children (<15 years old) enrolled at seven pediatric trauma centers. Functional Status Scale (FSS) score was measured for pre-injury, hospital discharge, and 6-month follow-up timepoints. Multinomial logistic regression identified factors associated with three dispositions: home without rehabilitation services, home with outpatient rehabilitation, and inpatient rehabilitation. Relative weight analysis was used to identify the impact of individual factors associated with inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation disposition. RESULTS We analyzed 427 children with serious injuries. Functional impairment at discharge was present in 103 (24.1%) children, including 43/337 (12.8%) discharged without services, 12/38 (31.6%) discharged with outpatient rehabilitation, and 44/47 (93.6%) discharged to inpatient rehabilitation. In multivariable modeling, variables most contributing to prediction of inpatient rehabilitation were severe initial Glasgow coma scale (GCS), injured body region, and functional impairment at discharge. Severe initial GCS, private insurance, and extremity injury were independently associated with disposition with outpatient rehabilitation. Patients discharged without services or with outpatient rehabilitation most frequently had motor impairments that improved during the next 6 months. Patients discharged to inpatient rehabilitation had impairments in all domains, with many improving within 6 months. A higher proportion of patients discharged to inpatient rehabilitation had residual impairments at follow-up. CONCLUSION Injury characteristics and discharge impairment were associated with discharge to inpatient rehabilitation. The FSS score identified impairments needing inpatient rehabilitation and characterized improvements after discharge. Less severe impairments needing outpatient rehabilitation were not identified by the FSS score.
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- Aline B. Maddux
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, 13121 E 17th Ave, MS 8414, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States,Corresponding author at: Pediatric Critical Care, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Education 2 South, 13121 East 17th Avenue, MS 8414, Aurora, CO 80045. (A.B. Maddux)
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, 1411 East 31st St, Oakland, CA, 94602, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children’s Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1550 Fourth St, San Francisco, CA, 94158, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, 13121 E 17th Ave, MS 8414, Aurora, CO, 80045, United States,Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, Arkansas Children’s, 13 Children’s Way, Slot 842, Little Rock, AR, 72202, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, 3901 Beaubien, Detroit, MI, 48201, United States
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- Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery, Children’s National Hospital, 111 Michigan Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20010, United States
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Vo M, Miller K, Bennett TD, Mourani PM, LaVelle J, Carpenter TC, Scott Watson R, Pyle LL, Maddux AB. Postdischarge health resource use in pediatric survivors of prolonged mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory illness. Pediatr Pulmonol 2022; 57:1651-1659. [PMID: 35438830 PMCID: PMC9233134 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.25934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We aimed to identify characteristics associated with postdischarge health resource use in children without medical complexity who survived an episode of prolonged mechanical ventilation for respiratory illness. We hypothesized that longer durations of mechanical ventilation, noncomplex chronic conditions, and severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) would be associated with readmission or an Emergency Department (ED) visit. In this retrospective cohort, we evaluated children without a complex chronic condition who survived a respiratory illness requiring ≥3 days of mechanical ventilation and who had insurance eligibility within the Colorado All Payers Claims Database. We used insurance claims to characterize health resource use and multivariable logistic regression to identify characteristics associated with readmission or an ED visit during the postdischarge year. We evaluated 82 children, median age 12.8 months (interquartile range [IQR]: 4.0-24.1), 20 (24%) with a noncomplex chronic condition and 62 (76%) without any chronic conditions. Bronchiolitis (60%) and pneumonia/aspiration pneumonitis (17%) were the most common etiologies of respiratory failure and 47 (57%) patients had severe ARDS. Forty-six (56%) patients had an ED visit or readmission. Among the 18 readmitted patients, 16/18 (89%) readmissions were for respiratory illness. Forty (49%) patients had ≥2 outpatient pulmonary visits and 45 (55%) filled a pulmonary medication prescription. In analyses controlling for age, illness severity and mechanical ventilation duration, severe ARDS was predictive of ED visit or readmission (odds ratio [OR]: 5.53 [95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.79, 19.09]). Children who survive prolonged mechanical ventilation for respiratory disease experience high rates of postdischarge health resource use, particularly those surviving severe ARDS.
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- Michelle Vo
- University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA.,Department of Pediatrics, Section of Informatics and Data Science, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine and Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.,Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, USA
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MEDucation: Healthcare Providers, Educators, and Families Partnering to Address the Educational Challenges of Children After Recovery From Critical Illness. Crit Care Med 2022; 50:1010-1012. [PMID: 35612439 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mehta SD, Muthu N, Yehya N, Galligan M, Porter E, McGowan N, Papili K, Favatella D, Liu H, Griffis H, Bonafide CP, Sutton RM. Leveraging EHR Data to Evaluate the Association of Late Recognition of Deterioration With Outcomes. Hosp Pediatr 2022; 12:447-460. [PMID: 35470399 DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2021-006363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Emergency transfers (ETs), deterioration events with late recognition requiring ICU interventions within 1 hour of transfer, are associated with adverse outcomes. We leveraged electronic health record (EHR) data to assess the association between ETs and outcomes. We also evaluated the association between intervention timing (urgency) and outcomes. METHODS We conducted a propensity-score-matched study of hospitalized children requiring ICU transfer between 2015 and 2019 at a single institution. The primary exposure was ET, automatically classified using Epic Clarity Data stored in our enterprise data warehouse endotracheal tube in lines/drains/airway flowsheet, vasopressor in medication administration record, and/or ≥60 ml/kg intravenous fluids in intake/output flowsheets recorded within 1 hour of transfer. Urgent intervention was defined as interventions within 12 hours of transfer. RESULTS Of 2037 index transfers, 129 (6.3%) met ET criteria. In the propensity-score-matched cohort (127 ET, 374 matched controls), ET was associated with higher in-hospital mortality (13% vs 6.1%; odds ratio, 2.47; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.24-4.9, P = .01), longer ICU length of stay (subdistribution hazard ratio of ICU discharge 0.74; 95% CI, 0.61-0.91, P < .01), and longer posttransfer length of stay (SHR of hospital discharge 0.71; 95% CI, 0.56-0.90, P < .01). Increased intervention urgency was associated with increased mortality risk: 4.1% no intervention, 6.4% urgent intervention, and 10% emergent intervention. CONCLUSIONS An EHR measure of deterioration with late recognition is associated with increased mortality and length of stay. Mortality risk increased with intervention urgency. Leveraging EHR automation facilitates generalizability, multicenter collaboratives, and metric consistency.
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- Sanjiv D Mehta
- aDepartments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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- aDepartments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
- dDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- eCenter for Healthcare Quality and Analytics
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- aDepartments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
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- gCritical Care Center for Evidence and Outcomes, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- hBiomedical and Health Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics Unit
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- hBiomedical and Health Informatics, Data Science and Biostatistics Unit
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- aDepartments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
- dDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Brown KL, Agrawal S, Kirschen MP, Traube C, Topjian A, Pressler R, Hahn CD, Scholefield BR, Kanthimathinathan HK, Hoskote A, D'Arco F, Bembea M, Manning JC, Hunfeld M, Buysse C, Tasker RC. The brain in pediatric critical care: unique aspects of assessment, monitoring, investigations, and follow-up. Intensive Care Med 2022; 48:535-547. [PMID: 35445823 PMCID: PMC10082392 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-022-06683-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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As survival after pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission has improved over recent years, a key focus now is the reduction of morbidities and optimization of quality of life for survivors. Neurologic disorders and direct brain injuries are the reason for 11-16% of admissions to PICU. In addition, many critically ill children are at heightened risk of brain injury and neurodevelopmental difficulties affecting later life, e.g., complex heart disease and premature birth. Hence, assessment, monitoring and protection of the brain, using fundamental principles of neurocritical care, are crucial to the practice of pediatric intensive care medicine. The assessment of brain function, necessary to direct appropriate care, is uniquely challenging amongst children admitted to the PICU. Challenges in assessment arise in children who are unstable, or pharmacologically sedated and muscle relaxed, or who have premorbid abnormality in development. Moreover, the heterogeneity of diseases and ages in PICU patients, means that high caliber evidence is harder to accrue than in adult practice, nonetheless, great progress has been made over recent years. In this 'state of the art' paper about critically ill children, we discuss (1) patient types at risk of brain injury, (2) new standardized clinical assessment tools for age-appropriate, clinical evaluation of brain function, (3) latest evidence related to cranial imaging, non-invasive and invasive monitoring of the brain, (4) the concept of childhood 'post intensive are syndrome' and approaches for neurodevelopmental follow-up. Better understanding of these concepts is vital for taking PICU survivorship to the next level.
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- Kate L Brown
- Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK. .,Institute of Cardiovascular, Science University College London, London, UK.
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- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia.,University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia.,University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA
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- Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.,Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London, UK.,University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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- Division of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Birmingham Acute Care Research Group, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.,Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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- Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.,Institute of Cardiovascular, Science University College London, London, UK
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- Biomedical Research Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.,University College London Institute of Child Health, London, UK
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Nottingham Children's Hospital and Neonatology, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.,Centre for Children and Young People Health Research, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.,Department of Pediatric Neurology, Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Intensive Care and Department of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Selwyn College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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Dannenberg V, Rovedder P, Carvalho P. Long-term functional outcomes of children after critical illnesses: A cohort study. Med Intensiva 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2022.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Maddux AB, Mourani PM, Miller K, Carpenter TC, LaVelle J, Pyle LL, Watson RS, Bennett TD. Identifying Long-Term Morbidities and Health Trajectories After Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation in Children Using State All Payer Claims Data. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2022; 23:e189-e198. [PMID: 35250002 PMCID: PMC9058185 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000002909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To identify postdischarge outcome phenotypes and risk factors for poor outcomes using insurance claims data. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Single quaternary center. PATIENTS Children without preexisting tracheostomy who required greater than or equal to 3 days of invasive mechanical ventilation, survived the hospitalization, and had postdischarge insurance eligibility in Colorado's All Payer Claims Database. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS We used unsupervised machine learning to identify functional outcome phenotypes based on claims data representative of postdischarge morbidities. We assessed health trajectory by comparing change in the number of insurance claims between quarters 1 and 4 of the postdischarge year. Regression analyses identified variables associated with unfavorable outcomes. The 381 subjects had median age 3.3 years (interquartile range, 0.9-12 yr), and 147 (39%) had a complex chronic condition. Primary diagnoses were respiratory (41%), injury (23%), and neurologic (11%). We identified three phenotypes: lower morbidity (n = 300), higher morbidity (n = 62), and 1-year nonsurvivors (n = 19). Complex chronic conditions most strongly predicted the nonsurvivor phenotype. Longer PICU stays and tracheostomy placement most strongly predicted the higher morbidity phenotype. Patients with high but improving postdischarge resource use were differentiated by high illness severity and long PICU stays. Patients with persistently high or increasing resource use were differentiated by complex chronic conditions and tracheostomy placement. CONCLUSIONS New morbidities are common after prolonged mechanical ventilation. Identifying phenotypes at high risk of postdischarge morbidity may facilitate prognostic enrichment in clinical trials.
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- Aline B. Maddux
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s, Little Rock, AR
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
- Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine and Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Informatics and Data Science, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
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Evans LL, Jensen AR, Meert KL, VanBuren JM, Richards R, Alvey JS, Carcillo JA, McQuillen PS, Mourani PM, Nance ML, Holubkov R, Pollack MM, Burd RS. All body region injuries are not equal: Differences in pediatric discharge functional status based on Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) body regions and severity scores. J Pediatr Surg 2022; 57:739-746. [PMID: 35090715 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2021.09.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 09/27/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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PURPOSE Functional outcomes have been proposed for assessing quality of pediatric trauma care. Outcomes assessments often rely on Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) severity scores to adjust for injury characteristics, but the relationship between AIS severity and functional impairment is unknown. This study's primary aim was to quantify functional impairment associated with increasing AIS severity scores within body regions. The secondary aim was to assess differences in impairment between body regions based on AIS severity. METHODS Children with serious (AIS≥ 3) isolated body region injuries enrolled in a multicenter prospective study were analyzed. The primary outcome was functional status at discharge measured using the Functional Status Scale (FSS). Discharge FSS was compared (1) within each body region across increasing AIS severity scores, and (2) between body regions for injuries with matching AIS scores. RESULTS The study included 266 children, with 16% having abnormal FSS at discharge. Worse FSS was associated with increasing AIS severity only for spine injuries. Abnormal FSS was observed in a greater proportion of head injury patients with a severely impaired initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) (GCS< 9) compared to those with a higher GCS score (43% versus 9%; p < 0.01). Patients with AIS 3 extremity and severe head injuries had a higher proportion of abnormal FSS at discharge than AIS 3 abdomen or non-severe head injuries. CONCLUSIONS AIS severity does not account for variability in discharge functional impairment within or between body regions. Benchmarking based on functional status assessment requires clinical factors in addition to AIS severity for appropriate risk adjustment. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 1 (Prognostic and Epidemiological).
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- Lauren L Evans
- Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, 744 52nd Street, 4th Floor OPC2, Oakland CA 94609, United States
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, 744 52nd Street, 4th Floor OPC2, Oakland CA 94609, United States.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, Detroit, MI 48201, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
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- Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Health System and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC 20010, United States
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- Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, United States
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Kausch SL, Sullivan B, Spaeder MC, Keim-Malpass J. Individual illness dynamics: An analysis of children with sepsis admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit. PLOS DIGITAL HEALTH 2022; 1:e0000019. [PMID: 36812513 PMCID: PMC9931234 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2021] [Accepted: 01/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Illness dynamics and patterns of recovery may be essential features in understanding the critical illness course. We propose a method to characterize individual illness dynamics in patients who experienced sepsis in the pediatric intensive care unit. We defined illness states based on illness severity scores generated from a multi-variable prediction model. For each patient, we calculated transition probabilities to characterize movement among illness states. We calculated the Shannon entropy of the transition probabilities. Using the entropy parameter, we determined phenotypes of illness dynamics based on hierarchical clustering. We also examined the association between individual entropy scores and a composite variable of negative outcomes. Entropy-based clustering identified four illness dynamic phenotypes in a cohort of 164 intensive care unit admissions where at least one sepsis event occurred. Compared to the low-risk phenotype, the high-risk phenotype was defined by the highest entropy values and had the most ill patients as defined by a composite variable of negative outcomes. Entropy was significantly associated with the negative outcome composite variable in a regression analysis. Information-theoretical approaches to characterize illness trajectories offer a novel way of assessing the complexity of a course of illness. Characterizing illness dynamics with entropy offers additional information in conjunction with static assessments of illness severity. Additional attention is needed to test and incorporate novel measures representing the dynamics of illness.
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- Sherry L. Kausch
- University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
- Center for Advanced Medical Analytics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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- Center for Advanced Medical Analytics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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- Center for Advanced Medical Analytics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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- University of Virginia School of Nursing, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
- Center for Advanced Medical Analytics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America
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Becker AE, Teixeira SR, Lunig NA, Mondal A, Fitzgerald JC, Topjian AA, Weiss SL, Griffis H, Schramm SE, Traynor DM, Vossough A, Kirschen MP. Sepsis-Related Brain MRI Abnormalities Are Associated With Mortality and Poor Neurological Outcome in Pediatric Sepsis. Pediatr Neurol 2022; 128:1-8. [PMID: 34992035 PMCID: PMC9685598 DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2021.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Revised: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND It is not known whether brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abnormalities in pediatric sepsis are associated with clinical outcomes. Study objectives were to (1) determine the prevalence and type of sepsis-related neuroimaging abnormalities evident on clinically indicated brain MRI in children with sepsis and (2) test the association of these abnormalities with mortality, new disability, length of stay (LOS), and MRI indication. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of 140 pediatric patients with sepsis and a clinically indicated brain MRI obtained within 60 days of sepsis onset at a single, large academic pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Two radiologists systematically reviewed the first post-sepsis brain MRI and determined which abnormalities were sepsis-related. Outcomes compared in patients with versus without sepsis-related MRI abnormalities. RESULTS PICU mortality was 7%. Thirty patients had one or more sepsis-related MRI abnormality, yielding a prevalence of 21% (95% confidence interval 15%, 28%). Among those, 53% (16 of 30) had sepsis-related white matter signal abnormalities; 53% (16 of 30) sepsis-related ischemia, infarction, or thrombosis; and 27% (eight of 30) sepsis-related posterior reversible encephalopathy. Patients with one or more sepsis-related MRI abnormality had increased mortality (17% vs 5%; P = 0.04), new neurological disability at PICU discharge (32% vs 11%; P = 0.03), and longer PICU LOS (median 18 vs 11 days; P = 0.04) compared with patients without. CONCLUSIONS In children with sepsis and a clinically indicated brain MRI, 21% had a sepsis-related MRI abnormality. Sepsis-related MRI abnormalities were associated with increased mortality, new neurological disability, and longer PICU LOS.
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- Andrew E. Becker
- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,CHOP Pediatric Sepsis Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA,CHOP Pediatric Sepsis Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Radiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA,Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Moynihan KM, Lelkes E, Kumar RK, DeCourcey DD. Is this as good as it gets? Implications of an asymptotic mortality decline and approaching the nadir in pediatric intensive care. Eur J Pediatr 2022; 181:479-487. [PMID: 34599379 DOI: 10.1007/s00431-021-04277-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Revised: 08/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Despite advances in medicine, some children will always die; a decline in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) mortality to zero will never be achieved. The mortality decline is correspondingly asymptotic, yet we remain preoccupied with mortality outcomes. Are we at the nadir, and are we, thus, as good as we can get? And what should we focus to benchmark our units, if not mortality? In the face of changing case-mix and rising complexity, dramatic reductions in PICU mortality have been observed globally. At the same time, survivors have increasing disability, and deaths are often characterized by intensive life-sustaining therapies preceded by prolonged admissions, emphasizing the need to consider alternate outcome measures to evaluate our successes and failures. What are the costs and implications of reaching this nadir in mortality outcomes? We highlight the failings of our fixation with survival and an imperative to consider alternative outcomes in our PICUs, including the costs for both patients that survive and die, their families, healthcare providers, and society including perspectives in low resource settings. We describe the implications for benchmarking, research, and training the next generation of providers.Conlusion: Although survival remains a highly relevant metric, as PICUs continue to strive for clinical excellence, pushing boundaries in research and innovation, with endeavors in safety, quality, and high-reliability systems, we must prioritize outcomes beyond mortality, evaluate "costs" beyond economics, and find novel ways to improve the care we provide to all of our pediatric patients and their families. What is Known: • The fall in PICU mortality is asymptotic, and a decline to zero is not achievable. Approaching the nadir, we challenge readers to consider implications of focusing on medical and technological advances with survival as the sole outcome of interest. What is New: • Our fixation with survival has costs for patients, families, staff, and society. In the changing PICU landscape, we advocate to pivot towards alternate outcome metrics. • By considering the implications for benchmarking, research, and training, we may better care for patients and families, educate trainees, and expand what it means to succeed in the PICU.
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- Katie M Moynihan
- Pediatric Intensive Care, Westmead Children's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
- Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California, CA, San Francisco, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Cochin, Kerala, India
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- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Division of Medical Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Association of Socioeconomic Status With Postdischarge Pediatric Resource Use and Quality of Life. Crit Care Med 2022; 50:e117-e128. [PMID: 34495879 PMCID: PMC8810731 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Socioeconomic factors may impact healthcare resource use and health-related quality of life, but their association with postcritical illness outcomes is unknown. This study examines the associations between socioeconomic status, resource use, and health-related quality of life in a cohort of children recovering from acute respiratory failure. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data from the Randomized Evaluation of Sedation Titration for Respiratory Failure clinical trial. SETTING Thirty-one PICUs. PATIENTS Children with acute respiratory failure enrolled whose parent/guardians consented for follow-up. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Resource use included in-home care, number of healthcare providers, prescribed medications, home medical equipment, emergency department visits, and hospital readmission. Socioeconomic status was estimated by matching residential address to census tract-based median income. Health-related quality of life was measured using age-based parent-report instruments. Resource use interviews with matched census tract data (n = 958) and health-related quality of life questionnaires (n = 750/958) were assessed. Compared with high-income children, low-income children received care from fewer types of healthcare providers (β = -0.4; p = 0.004), used less newly prescribed medical equipment (odds ratio = 0.4; p < 0.001), and had more emergency department visits (43% vs 33%; p = 0.04). In the youngest cohort (< 2 yr old), low-income children had lower quality of life scores from physical ability (-8.6 points; p = 0.01) and bodily pain/discomfort (+8.2 points; p < 0.05). In addition, health-related quality of life was lower in those who had more healthcare providers and prescribed medications. In older children, health-related quality of life was lower if they had prescribed medications, emergency department visits, or hospital readmission. CONCLUSIONS Children recovering from acute respiratory failure have ongoing healthcare resource use. Yet, lower income children use less in-home and outpatient services and use more hospital resources. Continued follow-up care, especially in lower income children, may help identify those in need of ongoing healthcare resources and those at-risk for decreased health-related quality of life.
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate whether delirium during pediatric critical illness is associated with post-discharge health-related quality of life. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Academic tertiary care center. PATIENTS Children 1 month to 18 years old admitted to the PICU or cardiac ICU and enrolled in the Seattle Children's Hospital Outcomes Assessment Program. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Delirium was assessed twice daily using the Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium; a score greater than or equal to 9 (with fluctuating level of arousal for children with developmental disability) indicated delirium. Baseline (pre-admission) and post-discharge health-related quality of life were assessed by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (Mapi Research Trust, Lyon, France) or the Functional Status II-R (for children with developmental disability). Among 534 patients, delirium was common (44%), as was clinically important decline in health-related quality of life (≥ 4.5 points) from baseline to follow-up (22%), measured at median 6.6 weeks post-hospital discharge (interquartile range, 5.1-8.5). On univariate analysis, children with delirium had similar likelihood of health-related quality of life decline compared with those without (25.5% vs 19.7%; p = 0.1). Using multivariable logistic regression adjusting for age, medical complexity, predicted risk of mortality, admission diagnosis, receipt of noninvasive ventilation, hospital length of stay, time to follow-up, and parent age, delirium was independently associated with health-related quality of life decline among children assessed by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (adjusted odds ratio, 2.0; 95% CI, 1.1-3.5). Among children evaluated with the Functional Status II-R, delirium was not independently associated with health-related quality of life decline (odds ratio, 1.4; 95% CI, 0.6-3.2). In both groups, longer time to follow-up was also independently associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. CONCLUSIONS Delirium during the ICU stay is associated with decline in health-related quality of life from baseline to post-discharge follow-up among children assessed by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, who were generally characterized by normal baseline cognitive function and less medical comorbidity. This association was not present among children assessed by the Functional Status II-R, potentially due to their higher overall risk of health-related quality of life decline, or other clinical differences that modify the effects of delirium in this group.
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- Leslie A. Dervan
- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Center for Clinical & Translational Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- Center for Child Health, Behavior, & Development, Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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Smith M, Bell C, Vega MW, Tufan Pekkucuksen N, Loftis L, McPherson M, Graf J, Akcan Arikan A. Patient-centered outcomes in pediatric continuous kidney replacement therapy: new morbidity and worsened functional status in survivors. Pediatr Nephrol 2022; 37:189-197. [PMID: 34235579 PMCID: PMC8263014 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-021-05177-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2020] [Revised: 05/01/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Ongoing measures to improve pediatric continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) have lowered mortality rates, shifting the focus to survivor functional status. While septic acute kidney injury generates new morbidity in pediatric critically ill patients, acquired morbidities and functional status of CKRT population are unknown. We predicted that CKRT survivors are at risk for new morbidity and would have worse functional status at PICU discharge compared to baseline, and aimed to describe associated factors. METHODS Retrospective cohort study over 24 months of CKRT patients surviving to PICU discharge in a quaternary children's hospital. Functional outcome was determined by Functional Status Scale (FSS). RESULTS FSS scores were higher at PICU and hospital discharge compared to baseline. Of 45 CKRT survivors, 31 (69%) had worse FSS score at PICU discharge and 51% had new morbidity (≥3 increase in FSS); majority qualified as moderate to severe disability (FSS ≥10). Four patients (9%) had new tracheostomy, 3 (7%) were ventilator dependent, and 10 (22%) were dialysis dependent. Most (23/45, 51%) required outpatient rehabilitation. Cumulative days on sedation, controlled for illness severity, were independently associated with worse FSS at PICU discharge (aOR 25.18 (3.73, 169.92)). In adjusted analyses, duration of sedation was associated with new morbidity, while neurologic comorbidity, percent fluid overload at CKRT start, and nonrenal comorbidity were associated with moderate to severe disability at PICU discharge when controlled for baseline FSS. CONCLUSIONS CKRT survivors, with new morbidity and worse functional outcomes at PICU discharge, are a newly described vulnerable population requiring targeted follow-up. Deliberate decrease of sedation exposure in patients with decreased clearance due to organ dysfunction needs to be studied as a modifiable risk factor.
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- Mallory Smith
- Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA USA ,Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
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- McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Renal Section, Baylor College of Medicine, 6651 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Renal Section, Baylor College of Medicine, 6651 Main Street, Houston, TX 77030 USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Renal Section, Baylor College of Medicine, 6651 Main Street, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. .,Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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Recher M, Leteurtre S, Canon V, Baudelet JB, Lockhart M, Hubert H. Severity of illness and organ dysfunction scoring systems in pediatric critical care: The impacts on clinician's practices and the future. Front Pediatr 2022; 10:1054452. [PMID: 36483470 PMCID: PMC9723400 DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.1054452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Severity and organ dysfunction (OD) scores are increasingly used in pediatric intensive care units (PICU). Therefore, this review aims to provide 1/ an updated state-of-the-art of severity scoring systems and OD scores in pediatric critical care, which explains 2/ the performance measurement tools and the significance of each tool in clinical practice and provides 3/ the usefulness, limits, and impact on future scores in PICU. The following two pediatric systems have been proposed: the PRISMIV, is used to collect data between 2 h before PICU admission and the first 4 h after PICU admission; the PIM3, is used to collect data during the first hour after PICU admission. The PELOD-2 and SOFApediatric scores were the most common OD scores available. Scores used in the PICU should help clinicians answer the following three questions: 1/ Are the most severely ill patients dying in my service: a good discrimination allow us to interpret that there are the most severe patients who died in my service. 2/ Does the overall number of deaths observed in my department consistent with the severity of patients? The standard mortality ratio allow us to determine whether the total number of deaths observed in our service over a given period is in adequacy with the number of deaths predicted, by considering the severity of patients on admission? 3/ Does the number of deaths observed by severity level in my department consistent with the severity of patients? The calibration enabled us to determine whether the number of deaths observed according to the severity of patients at PICU admission in a department over a given period is in adequacy with the number of deaths predicted, according to the severity of the patients at PICU admission. These scoring systems are not interpretable at the patient level. Scoring systems are used to describe patients with PICU in research and evaluate the service's case mix and performance. Therefore, the prospect of automated data collection, which permits their calculation, facilitated by the computerization of services, is a necessity that manufacturers should consider.
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- Morgan Recher
- University of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France.,French National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France.,French National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France.,French National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France.,French National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry, Lille, France
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- University of Lille, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, France.,French National Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry, Lille, France
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Haque A, Bhatti S, Ahmed S, Muhammad IZ. Incidence of new morbidity based on Functional Status Scale in children on discharge from pediatric intensive care unit of a developing country: A single-center observational study. JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE 2022. [DOI: 10.4103/jpcc.jpcc_46_22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Menon K, Schlapbach LJ, Akech S, Argent A, Biban P, Carrol ED, Chiotos K, Jobayer Chisti M, Evans IVR, Inwald DP, Ishimine P, Kissoon N, Lodha R, Nadel S, Oliveira CF, Peters M, Sadeghirad B, Scott HF, de Souza DC, Tissieres P, Watson RS, Wiens MO, Wynn JL, Zimmerman JJ, Sorce LR. Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce. Crit Care Med 2022; 50:21-36. [PMID: 34612847 PMCID: PMC8670345 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine the associations of demographic, clinical, laboratory, organ dysfunction, and illness severity variable values with: 1) sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock in children with infection and 2) multiple organ dysfunction or death in children with sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched from January 1, 2004, and November 16, 2020. STUDY SELECTION Case-control studies, cohort studies, and randomized controlled trials in children greater than or equal to 37-week-old postconception to 18 years with suspected or confirmed infection, which included the terms "sepsis," "septicemia," or "septic shock" in the title or abstract. DATA EXTRACTION Study characteristics, patient demographics, clinical signs or interventions, laboratory values, organ dysfunction measures, and illness severity scores were extracted from eligible articles. Random-effects meta-analysis was performed. DATA SYNTHESIS One hundred and six studies met eligibility criteria of which 81 were included in the meta-analysis. Sixteen studies (9,629 patients) provided data for the sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock outcome and 71 studies (154,674 patients) for the mortality outcome. In children with infection, decreased level of consciousness and higher Pediatric Risk of Mortality scores were associated with sepsis/severe sepsis. In children with sepsis/severe sepsis/septic shock, chronic conditions, oncologic diagnosis, use of vasoactive/inotropic agents, mechanical ventilation, serum lactate, platelet count, fibrinogen, procalcitonin, multi-organ dysfunction syndrome, Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction score, Pediatric Index of Mortality-3, and Pediatric Risk of Mortality score each demonstrated significant and consistent associations with mortality. Pooled mortality rates varied among high-, upper middle-, and lower middle-income countries for patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Strong associations of several markers of organ dysfunction with the outcomes of interest among infected and septic children support their inclusion in the data validation phase of the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce.
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- Kusum Menon
- Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Pediatric and Neonatal ICU, University Children`s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, and Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Paediatrics, Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Infection Microbiology and Immunology, University of Liverpool Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and The Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia and British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India
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- St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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- Departments of Anesthesia and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
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- Departments of Pediatrics, Hospital Sírio-Libanês and Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paolo, Brazil
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- Pediatric Intensive Care, AP-HP Paris Saclay University, Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Lurie Children’s Pediatric Research & Evidence Synthesis Center (PRECIISE): A JBI Affiliated Group, Chicago, IL
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Geneslaw AS, Lu Y, Miles CH, Hua M, Cappell J, Smerling AJ, Olfson M, Edwards JD, Ing C. Long-Term Increases in Mental Disorder Diagnoses After Invasive Mechanical Ventilation for Severe Childhood Respiratory Disease: A Propensity Matched Observational Cohort Study. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2021; 22:1013-1025. [PMID: 34261946 PMCID: PMC10193693 DOI: 10.1097/pcc.0000000000002790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate neurodevelopmental and mental disorders after PICU hospitalization in children requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for severe respiratory illness. DESIGN Retrospective longitudinal observational cohort. SETTING Texas Medicaid Analytic eXtract data from 1999 to 2012. PATIENTS Texas Medicaid-enrolled children greater than or equal to 28 days old to less than 18 years old hospitalized for a primary respiratory illness, without major chronic conditions predictive of abnormal neurodevelopment. INTERVENTIONS We examined rates of International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision-coded mental disorder diagnoses and psychotropic medication use following discharge among children requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for severe respiratory illness, compared with general hospital patients propensity score matched on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics prior to admission. Children admitted to the PICU for respiratory illness not necessitating invasive mechanical ventilation were also compared with matched general hospital patients as a negative control exposure. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Of 115,335 eligible children, 1,351 required invasive mechanical ventilation and were matched to 6,755 general hospital patients. Compared with general hospital patients, children requiring invasive mechanical ventilation had increased mental disorder diagnoses (hazard ratio, 1.43 [95% CI, 1.26-1.64]; p < 0.0001) and psychotropic medication use (hazard ratio, 1.67 [1.34-2.08]; p < 0.0001) following discharge. Seven-thousand seven-hundred eighty children admitted to the PICU without invasive mechanical ventilation were matched to 38,900 general hospital patients and had increased mental disorder diagnoses (hazard ratio, 1.08 [1.02-1.15]; p = 0.01) and psychotropic medication use (hazard ratio, 1.11 [1.00-1.22]; p = 0.049). CONCLUSIONS Children without major comorbidity requiring invasive mechanical ventilation for severe respiratory illness had a 43% higher incidence of subsequent mental disorder diagnoses and a 67% higher incidence of psychotropic medication use. Both increases were substantially higher than in PICU patients with respiratory illness not necessitating invasive mechanical ventilation. Invasive mechanical ventilation is a life-saving therapy, and its application is interwoven with underlying health, illness severity, and PICU management decisions. Further research is required to determine which factors related to invasive mechanical ventilation and severe respiratory illness are associated with abnormal neurodevelopment. Given the increased risk in these children, identification of strategies for prevention, neurodevelopmental surveillance, and intervention after discharge may be warranted.
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- Andrew S Geneslaw
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
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- Departments of Anesthesiology and Epidemiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Epidemiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
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- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
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- Departments of Anesthesia and Epidemiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY
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