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Objectives: Data on long-term survival in children after interhospital transport to a PICU are scarce. The main objective was to investigate short- and long-term outcome after acute interhospital transport to a PICU for different age and risk stratification groups. Secondary aims were to investigate whether neonatal patients would have higher mortality and be more resource demanding than older patients.
Design: Single-center, retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Specialist pediatric transport team and a tertiary PICU in Sweden.
Patients: Critically ill children 0-18 years old, acutely transported by a specialist pediatric transport team to a PICU in Sweden (January 1, 2008, to December 31, 2016).
Interventions: None.
Measurements And Main Results: A total of 401 acute transport events were included. Overall mortality was 15.7% with a median follow-up time of 3.4 years (range, 0-10.2 yr). Median predicted death rate was 4.9%. There was no mortality during transport. Cumulative mortality almost doubled within the first 6 months after PICU discharge, from 6.5% to 12.0%. Of late deaths, 66.7% occurred in the risk stratification group predicted death rate 0-10%, and 95% suffered from severe comorbidity. There were no deaths after PICU discharge in the neonatal group. Cumulative mortality in multiple transported patients was 36.4%.
Conclusions: This is the first report on long-term survival after acute pediatric interhospital transport. For the entire cohort, there was significant mortality after PICU discharge, especially in multiple transported patients. In contrast, survival in the subgroup of neonatal patients was high after PICU discharge.
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