Functional Status and Hospital Readmission After Pediatric Critical Disease: A Year Follow-Up.

Objectives: To evaluate the association between pediatric functional status at hospital discharge after PICU admission and hospital readmission within 1 year.

Design: Prospective longitudinal study.

Setting: Two PICUs in tertiary hospitals in South Brazil.

HOSPITAL PHYSICAL THERAPY MANAGEMENT IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH COVID-19: CASE REPORTS.

Objective: To report the physiotherapeutic management of two pediatric cases with COVID-19 admitted in a reference state hospital to treat the disease in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil.

Cases Description: Case 1, female, 10-month-old child, pre-existing chronic disease, hospitalized since birth, mechanical ventilation dependency via tracheotomy, progressed with hypoxemia, requiring oxygen therapy, and increased ventilator parameters, and a diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed. Airway clearance and pulmonary expansion maintenance therapies were performed.