Improvements in devices and techniques used to provide life support for patients at intensive
care units have reduced patient mortality. Increases in the number of survivors from a critical …

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 …

Medical care often causes pain and anxiety in children. Providing procedural sedation and
analgesia has increasingly been implemented in pediatric healthcare, also during minor …

The study aimed to compare two scores: the pediatric logistic organ dysfunction (PELOD)
with its updated version (PELOD-2) in describing the severity of organ dysfunction in …

Background Clinical decision-making is a complex cognitive process that relies on the
interpretation of a large variety of data from different sources and involves the use of …

Background Traditional herbal medicine (THM) is frequently used in pediatric populations in
many low-income countries as a form of healthcare and has been associated with a range of …

Objective: To assess and compare the diagnostic accuracy of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality
(PRISM) III score and Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (p-SOFA) for the …

Breakthroughs in surgical and medical techniques have significantly improved outcomes for
children with congenital heart disease (CHD), but research continues to address the …

Background: The pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM III), pediatric index of mortality (PIM3),
and pediatric logistic organ dysfunction (PELOD-2) are of the most used predictive models in …

The sudden appearance and proliferation of coronavirus disease 2019 has forced societies
and governmental authorities across the world to confront the possibility of resource …