Mortality and morbidity among infants at high risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus infection receiving prophylaxis with palivizumab: a systematic literature review …

PA Checchia, L Nalysnyk, AW Fernandes… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the
impact of prophylaxis with palivizumab on mortality and morbidity associated with respiratory …

Ventilator‐associated pneumonia in paediatric intensive care: a literature review

P Turton - Nursing in critical care, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Ventilator‐associated pneumonia (VAP) has been identified as the most
common nosocomial infection in intensive care units (ICUs) with associated health and …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical characteristics and immediate-outcome of children mechanically ventilated in PICU of Pakistan

B Mukhtar, NR Siddiqui, A Haque - Pakistan journal of medical …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Back ground and Objective: Mechanical Ventilation (MV) is frequently used as one
of the most frequent life-supportive technology in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) …

Characteristics and outcomes of mechanically ventilated pediatric patients in a tertiary referral hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: cross sectional study

T Bacha, N Tsegaye, W Tuli - Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2021 - ajol.info
BACKGROUND፡ A few studies are available from Africa on the use of mechanical
ventilation (MV) in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Knowledge of the outcome of …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical ventilation practice in Egyptian pediatric intensive care units

BS Meligy, S Kamal, SA El Sherbini - Electronic physician, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods This prospective observational study was conducted from January 2014 to
December 2014 in two pediatric intensive care units at Cairo University Pediatric Hospital …

Prevalence and risk factors associated with drug resistant bacteria in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units: A retrospective study in Saudi Arabia

AS Bazaid, A Aldarhami, NA Bokhary, MB Bazaid… - Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Successful empirical antibiotic therapy for infected patients with multi drug resistant bacteria
(MDR) can be challenging task in various healthcare settings, including neonatal and …

Adverse events related to mechanical ventilation in a pediatric intensive care unit

LS Martins, AR Ferreira, FM Kakehasi - Revista Paulista de Pediatria, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Objective: To identify the prevalence and factors associated with adverse events (AE)
related to invasive mechanical ventilation in patients admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care …

Use of a mortality prediction model in children on mechanical ventilation: a 5-year experience in a tertiary university hospital

WH Albuali, AA Algamdi, EA Hasan… - Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Currently, several scoring systems for predicting mortality in severely ill children
who require treatment in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) have been established …

Effects of ischemic acute kidney injury on lung water balance: nephrogenic pulmonary edema?

RK Basu, D Wheeler - Pulmonary medicine, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Pulmonary edema worsens the morbidity and increases the mortality of critically ill patients.
Mechanistically, edema formation in the lung is a result of net flow across the alveolar …

Optimal duration of mechanical ventilation and influencing factors following mandibular distraction osteogenesis in infants with Pierre Robin sequence

N Zhang, Z Mao, Y Cui, Y Tan, H Zhang, X Ye, Y Xu - Medicine, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Mandibular distraction osteogenesis (MDO) is an effective treatment for tongue-based
airway obstruction in infants with severe Pierre Robin sequence (PRS). Most infants …