Publications by authors named "Blythe E Pollack"
Article Synopsis
- The aim of the study was to see if hospitals that have ECMO (a special machine that helps kids who have serious heart or breathing problems) help more children survive cardiac arrest compared to hospitals without it.
- Researchers looked at data from kids who had cardiac arrests in hospitals between 2016 and 2018, focusing on how many survived after treatment.
- They found that kids treated at hospitals with ECMO had a better chance of surviving (50%) compared to those at hospitals without it (32%), suggesting that having ECMO can lead to better outcomes for kids in cardiac arrest.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a life support technology provided to children to support respiratory failure, cardiac failure, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation after failure of conventional management. Over the decades, ECMO has expanded in use, advanced in technology, shifted from experimental to a standard of care, and evidence supporting its use has increased. The expanded ECMO indications and medical complexity of children have also necessitated focused studies in the ethical domain such as decisional authority, resource allocation, and equitable access.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 17-year-old man was admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit 2 hours following an intentional ingestion of unknown substances. In the first 23 hours of hospitalisation, lactate levels remained elevated at 2-4 mmol/L, during the 24th hour, he developed lactic acidosis with lactate levels increasing from 4 to 16 mmol/L. His neurological status declined, requiring orotracheal intubation.
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