Publications by authors named "Nikhil Vinayak"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to characterize necrotizing pneumonia (NP) in children, identifying key features in a group of 10 patients from a database of 272 pneumonia cases treated between 2014 and 2018.
- - Patients with NP experienced severe respiratory distress, with 70% needing mechanical ventilation, and the most common pathogen found was Staphylococcus aureus, affecting 60% of the cases.
- - Key complications included pleural effusion and pneumothorax, leading to intercostal drainage in 70% of patients, and airway hemorrhage was noted as the most fatal complication.
The feasibility and safety of pediatric tracheostomy care at home by parents is challenging. Many physicians are not confident of sending tracheostomized children home. We describe our experience with 12 children who underwent tracheostomy and were sent home.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Information regarding early predictive factors for mortality and morbidity in sepsis is limited from developing countries.
Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted to determine the clinical outcome and predictors of mortality in children with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock. Children aged 1 month to 14 years admitted to a tertiary care pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with a diagnosis of sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock were enrolled in the study.