Adherence with post-hospitalization follow-up after pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure.

Background: Adherence with follow-up appointments after a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission is likely a key component in managing post-PICU sequalae. However, prior work on PICU follow-up adherence is limited. The objective of this study is to identify hospitalization characteristics, discharge child health metrics, and follow-up characteristics associated with full adherence with recommended follow-up at a quaternary care center after a PICU admission due to respiratory failure.

Impression of Primary Care Follow-Up After a PICU Admission: A Pilot Survey of Primary Care Pediatricians.

Objectives: The majority of PICU general follow-up occurs with primary care providers. Our objective was to investigate primary care pediatricians': 1) comfort with and barriers to caring for children after a PICU admission, 2) knowledge of and screening for post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-P), and 3) resource needs.

Design: Pilot cross-sectional survey study.

Parent post-traumatic growth after a child's critical illness.

Objective: Post-traumatic growth is the experience of a positive change after a traumatic event. Our objective is to characterize the factors associated with post-traumatic growth in parents after a child's pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission.

Study Design: A cross-sectional survey study examining post-traumatic growth and select independent variables in parents 1 year after a child's ≥72 h PICU admission for an acute illness or injury.

A Core Outcome Measurement Set for Pediatric Critical Care.

Objectives: To identify a PICU Core Outcome Measurement Set (PICU COMS), a set of measures that can be used to evaluate the PICU Core Outcome Set (PICU COS) domains in PICU patients and their families.

Design: A modified Delphi consensus process.

Setting: Four webinars attended by PICU physicians and nurses, pediatric surgeons, rehabilitation physicians, and scientists with expertise in PICU clinical care or research ( n = 35).

Family Outcomes After the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review.

Background: Intensivists are increasingly attuned to the postdischarge outcomes experienced by families because patient recovery and family outcomes are interdependent after childhood critical illness. In this scoping review of international contemporary literature, we describe the evidence of family effects and functioning postpediatric intensive care unit (PICU) as well as outcome measures used to identify strengths and weaknesses in the literature.

Methods: We reviewed all articles published between 1970 and 2017 in PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), or the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry.

Posthospitalization follow-up recommendations after pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure.

Objectives: To characterize the recommended posthospitalization follow-up by provider type and location after a pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure.

Working Hypothesis: After pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure, patients will not have a standard follow-up pattern with regard to provider type or follow-up location.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study.

Three Cases of Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Associated with COVID-19 Due to SARS-CoV-2.

BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection commonly presents as fever, cough, and shortness of breath in adults. Children are thought to have milder respiratory symptoms and to recover more quickly. We describe a new presentation of COVID-19 infection in children consisting of multisystem inflammation with decreased left ventricular function and evidence of lung disease.

Parent Medical Traumatic Stress and Associated Family Outcomes After Pediatric Critical Illness: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: To critically review, analyze, and synthesize the literature on parent medical traumatic stress from a child's critical illness requiring PICU admission and its association with outcomes of parent mental and physical health, and family functioning.

Data Sources: Systematic literature search of Pubmed, Embase, CINAHL, and PsychInfo.

Study Selection: Two reviewers identified peer-reviewed published articles with the following criteria: 1) published between January 1, 1980, and August 1, 2018; 2) published in English; 3) study population of parents of children with a PICU admission; and 4) quantitative studies examining factors associated with outcomes of parent mental health, parent physical health, or family functioning.

Outcomes and Patterns of Healthcare Utilization After Hospitalization for Pediatric Critical Illness Due to Respiratory Failure.

Objectives: To quantify home care needs, healthcare utilization, and 2-year mortality after pediatric critical illness due to respiratory failure, and evaluate the impact of new morbidity and abnormal function at hospital discharge on resource use and outcomes.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Quaternary care PICU.