Cytokine Release Syndrome in the Pediatric Population and Implications for Intensive Care Management.

Cytokine release syndrome represents a spectrum of disease varying from fever alone to multiorgan system failure. Most commonly seen following treatment with chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, it is increasingly being described with other immunotherapies as well as following hematopoietic stem cell transplant. As its symptoms are nonspecific, awareness is key to timely diagnosis and initiation of treatment.

Epidemiology of Bleeding in Critically Ill Children With an Underlying Oncologic Diagnosis.

Objectives: Critically ill children with malignancy have significant risk of bleeding but the exact epidemiology is unknown. We sought to describe severe bleeding events and associated risk factors in critically ill pediatric patients with an underlying oncologic diagnosis using the newly developed Bleeding Assessment Scale in Critically Ill Children definition.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Type of admission and nursing workload of critical patients: a cross-sectional study.

Background: According to the perception of nurses in the intensive care unit (ICU), surgical patients need more nursing care, thus requiring higher nursing workloads for these patients than those admitted as clinical patients. However, some study results on the relationship between the type of admission and the nursing workload are considered contradictory.

Aims And Objectives: To identify if the type of admission (clinical, emergency surgery or elective surgery) is a predictive factor of the nursing workload required by patients on the first day or throughout their stay in the ICU.