Demographic profile and outcome analysis of a tertiary level pediatric intensive care unit

A Retrospective Evaluation of Morbidity Pattern and Outcome of Patients Admitted into a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in India

“…During the 30 months study period, 1231 children were admitted to the 10 bedded PICU (432 and 416 in each year) which is comparable to other tertiary level PICUs in the country. (7) Majority of the patients were males (61.2%) a finding similar to that of S. Shah and K. Shah and 47.4% were infants as recorded by Haque and Bano. (8,9) This study revealed that respiratory diseases (32.3%) followed neurological disorders (17.0%), and Infection other than sepsis-(11.7%) were the major causes of admission into the PICU.…”

Prediction of mortality by pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM III) score in teriary care rural hospital in India

“…10,11,13 With increase in PRISM III score there is increase % of mortality and that is comparable to Indian, Asian and other studies too. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Choi et al as compared to other studies found very low mortality of 2.6%, he gave explanation for this as Sepsis was significantly underrepresented in his study population (2.3%) compared with other reports (30%-41%). 7,15,16 The mortality of sepsis in a Turkish PICU was reported as higher than 50%.…”

“…Khilani et al concluded that gross mortality was 6.7% (59 patients). 6 PRISMIII adjusted mortality was directly proportional to PRISMIII scores. Bilan et al found that ROC analysis indicated a strong predictive power for the PRISM-III (area under the curve = 0.898) and the test was well fit to the designed study (goodness-of-fit p-value = 0.161).…”

Clinical, Demographic Profile and Outcome of Children Admitted in PICU with A Diagnosis of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

“…Males outnumbered Females in our study with M: F ratio of 1.76:1.This finding was comparable to different studies done by Khan et al, Jaramillo-Bustamante JC and Watson et al (6,8,9) . The mean age of patients enrolled was 88 months which differed from the studies (13,14) . The difference in age probably resulted from lack of pneumococcal vaccination of younger children in a developing country like Nepal.…”