Medical Emergency Team Event Characteristics from an Australian Pediatric Hospital: A Single-Center, Retrospective Study.

Objectives: To describe the characteristics of medical emergency team (MET) events at an Australian pediatric, tertiary-care center in a way that would allow for comparison with other MET systems.

Methods: A retrospective, single-center, observational study. Consecutive MET events that occurred between January 2013 and July 2014 at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia, were included.

Assessing the bowel function of critically ill children: a pilot study.

Objective: To describe the bowel function of critically ill children.

Design, Setting And Participants: A prospective, observational study, in a regional tertiary intensive care unit, of children under 16 years of age who were admitted for more than 24 hours. We collected demographic data and captured information on bowel function and stool form and on factors that may affect these, such as medicines and nutrition.

Outcomes in children with refractory pneumonia supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

Purpose: To review the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in severe paediatric pneumonia and evaluate factors that may affect efficacy of this treatment.

Methods: Retrospective study of the ECMO database of a tertiary paediatric intensive care unit and chart review of all patients who were managed with ECMO during their treatment for severe pneumonia over a 23-year period. The main outcome measures were survival to hospital discharge, and ICU and hospital length of stay.