Background: Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has been sporadically reported as a cause of respiratory tract infections. In 2014, an international outbreak of EV-D68 occurred and caused severe respiratory disease in the pediatric population.
Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed of children admitted to Children's Mercy Hospital from August 1, 2014, to September 15, 2014, with positive multiplex polymerase chain reaction testing for EV/rhinovirus (RV).
Objectives: Describe aspects of one center's experience extubating infants and children during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Design: Retrospective review of medical records.
Setting: Seventy-one-bed critical care service (PICU and cardiovascular ICU) in a large urban tertiary children's hospital.
Indian J Crit Care Med
October 2012
Calcium channel blocker (CCB) toxicity is associated with refractory hypotension and can be fatal. A 13 year old young woman presented to the emergency department(ED) six hours after an intentional overdose of amlodipine, barbiturates, and alcohol. She remained extremely hypotensive despite the administration of normal saline and calcium chloride and despite infusions of norepinephrine, epinephrine, insulin, and dextrose.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To compare the efficacy of a low-dose methadone tapering schedule to a high-dose methadone tapering schedule in pediatric intensive care unit patients exposed to infusions of fentanyl, with or without infusions of midazolam, for ≥ 5 days.
Design: Prospective, double-blind, randomized trial.
Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary care children's hospital.
Objectives: Describe the use of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation as rescue therapy in pediatric patients who experience cardiopulmonary arrest refractory to conventional resuscitation. We report on outcomes and factors associated with survival in children treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiopulmonary arrest from the American Heart Association National Registry of CardioPulmonary Resuscitation.
Design: Multicentered, national registry of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.