Publications by authors named "R Hernandez-Rastrollo"
Article Synopsis
- - A pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is specifically designed for children with severe illnesses that need continuous, specialized medical care from an expert team in pediatric intensive care.
- - Timely intervention in the PICU can lower mortality rates, shorten hospital stays, and reduce overall healthcare costs.
- - The Spanish Association of Pediatrics, along with other medical societies, has established guidelines for patient admission, discharge, and triage to ensure high-quality care and safety for critically ill children in Spain's PICUs.
Article Synopsis
- A paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a specialized facility designed to provide intensive care for severely ill children, requiring a skilled medical team.
- Timely interventions in PICUs help reduce patient mortality, shorten hospital stays, and lower healthcare costs.
- Guidelines established by Spanish medical organizations aim to improve the quality of care and safety for critically ill children, ensuring they receive the appropriate level of treatment.
Introduction: Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA-1) is a progressive and fatal disease that leads to ethical problems for Paediatric professionals. Our objective was to determine the ethical options of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) paediatricians as regards a child with SMA-1 and respiratory failure.
Material And Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using an anonymous questionnaire sent to PICUs in Spain (which can be accessed through the Spanish Society of Paediatric Critical Care web page).
Introduction: Bioethics has been recently incorporated in to the educational programs of both medical students and medical residents as part of their curriculum. However, its training based on clinical practice is not well structured.
Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of bioethics in Spanish paediatric residents, and to analyse how this relates to the medical education during graduate and post-graduate training.
Introduction: Coagulase-negative-Staphylococci (CNS) are the major cause of bacteraemia and sepsis in newborns. CNS methicillin resistance and its loss of sensitivity to glycopeptide antibiotics, make treatment significantly more difficult in positive cocci infections.
Objective: To study MIC vancomycin, teicoplanin and linezolid in different species of CNS methicillin resistant isolates from blood cultures from paediatric patients.