Set of Quality Indicators of Pediatric Intensive Care in Spain: Delphi Method Selection.

Introduction: This study objective was to identify, select, and define a basic set of quality indicators for pediatric intensive care in Spain.

Methods: (1) Review of the literature to identify quality indicators and their defining elements and (2) selection of indicators by consensus of a group of experts using basic Delphi methodology (2 rounds) and forms distributed by email among experts from the Spanish society of pediatric intensive care.

Results: We selected quality indicators according to their relevance and feasibility and the experts' agreement on their incorporation in the final set.

Cardiac index monitoring by femoral arterial thermodilution after cardiac surgery in children.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine whether the maintenance of cardiac index (CI) measured by femoral arterial thermodilution during the postoperative period after heart surgery in children is related to short-term outcome.

Materials And Methods: A prospective observational study in a pediatric intensive care unit at a referral hospital for congenital heart disease was conducted. Thirty-five children after open heart surgery were monitored in 5 planned times with PiCCO (Pulsion Medical System AG, Munich, Germany) during the first 24 hours after admission.

Two-year follow-up of anti-transglutaminase autoantibodies among celiac children on gluten-free diet: comparison of IgG and IgA.

Objectives: To investigate the evolution of IgA and IgG autoantibodies against tissue transglutaminase (tTGase) in celiac patients on gluten-free diet (GFD).

Methods: IgA and IgG anti-tTGAse autoantibodies was evaluated in 93 patients (58 girls and 35 boys; mean age 3.56 +/- 3.