Connecting to (Re)connect: Video Calling as a Resource to Unite Families and Children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Era.

Video calling emerged as an important resource during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to reconnect child and family, bringing the possibility of communication even during isolation. The objective of this study was to understand the experiences of families who communicated with their children through video calls during isolation by COVID-19 in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This was a qualitative study employing the theory of symbolic interactionism and the research method of grounded theory, with 14 families of children in PICU who used video calling as a communication resource.

A Pediatric Intensive Care Checklist for Interprofessional Rounds: The R-PICniC Study.

Background: The use of checklists in the pediatric intensive care unit can help improve the quality of care and patient safety.

Objectives: To build and validate a checklist for use in interprofessional rounds in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Methods: This methodological study was conducted in a 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit serving children up to 14 years old.

Support group for families with children in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Objective: To describe the process of creating and implementing a support group for families with children in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Methods: A professional experience report described using a management and planning tool.

Results: This is a pioneering initiative in the hospital.

Hemodynamic effects of increased intra-abdominal pressure in critically ill children.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of intra-abdominal pressure on the cardiac index (CI) at different intra-abdominal hypertension grades achieved when performing an abdominal compression maneuver (ACM). Evaluating the effectiveness of the ACM in distending the left internal jugular vein (LIJV).

Methods: Prospective observational study conducted in the PICU of a quaternary care teaching hospital.

The experience of grandparents of children hospitalized in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: To understand the experience of grandparents of children hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units.

Method: This was a qualitative study based on the symbolic interactionism theoretical framework and the grounded theory as methodological framework carried out with grandparents of children hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in a city in the state of São Paulo. Data were collected by means of participatory observation and semi-structured interviews, and analyzed following the open and axial codification stages of grounded theory.