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Intensive Care Units, Pediatric

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Disease relevance of Intensive Care Units, Pediatric

At the present time, the areas of greatest concern are the outbreaks of infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the neonatal ICUs and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) [1].

Psychiatry related information on Intensive Care Units, Pediatric

MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: In children admitted to pediatric intensive care units, parental reports at 3-month follow-up showed a significant increase in emotional and hyperactivity symptoms and in related impairment; symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder were present in four of 26 (15%) children >8 yrs old [2].

High impact information on Intensive Care Units, Pediatric

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the Point-of-Care (POC) i-STAT system for measuring blood gases (pH, pCO2, pO2) and whole blood electrolytes (sodium, Na+, potassium, K+ and ionized calcium, iCa2+) in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units [3].
OBJECTIVE: Between October and November 2003, several infants with encephalopathy were hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units in Israel. Two died of cardiomyopathy [4].
Midazolam, lorazepam, morphine, and fentanyl are the most frequently used drugs in pediatric intensive care units for analgesia and sedation [5].
OBJECTIVE: In recent years, continuous intravenous propofol infusion has been widely used in pediatric intensive care units [6].

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Evaluation of i-STAT portable clinical analyzer in a neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit. Murthy, J.N., Hicks, J.M., Soldin, S.J. Clin. Biochem. (1997) [Pubmed]
Outbreak of life-threatening thiamine deficiency in infants in Israel caused by a defective soy-based formula. Fattal-Valevski, A., Kesler, A., Sela, B.A., Nitzan-Kaluski, D., Rotstein, M., Mesterman, R., Toledano-Alhadef, H., Stolovitch, C., Hoffmann, C., Globus, O., Eshel, G. Pediatrics (2005) [Pubmed]
Sedation, analgesia, and neuromuscular blockade in the pediatric intensive care unit: survey of fellowship training programs. Twite, M.D., Rashid, A., Zuk, J., Friesen, R.H. Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. (2004) [Pubmed]
Continuous propofol infusion in 142 critically ill children. Cornfield, D.N., Tegtmeyer, K., Nelson, M.D., Milla, C.E., Sweeney, M. Pediatrics (2002) [Pubmed]

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