Correlations between the pediatric sleep questionnaire and the pediatric overnight pulse oximetry.

Background: Since access to polysomnography is often limited, overnight pulse oximetry (OPO) is often used as an alternative despite its lower sensitivity. OPO can be an effective screening tool for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), potentially indicating the presence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OPO is also required for organizing postoperative monitoring following adenotonsillectomy.

Assessing the Role of Nasal Irrigation in Chronic Otorrhea in Children With Tympanostomy Tubes.

Importance: Nasal irrigation (NI) is effective in the treatment of sinonasal disease; however, its efficacy in treating otologic conditions is undetermined. Chronic otorrhea (CO) is an important complication in children with tympanostomy tubes (TT), requiring additional treatment.

Objective: Determine potential factors of NI that put children with TT at risk of developing CO.

Tympanostomy Tubes Under Local Versus General Anesthesia for Children: A Prospective Long-Term Study.

Objectives: Tympanostomy tube insertion (TTI) under local anesthesia (LA) is gaining popularity but literature comparing long-term outcomes for children undergoing TTI under LA versus general anesthesia (GA) is limited. This study compares the long-term quality of life (QoL) between LA and GA in children undergoing TTI. Secondary objectives included long-term behavioral changes, parental satisfaction, tube durability, and postoperative complications.

Comparison of Tympanostomy Tubes Under Local Anesthesia Versus General Anesthesia for Children.

Objective: Tympanostomy tube insertion (TTI) is typically accomplished under general anesthesia (GA) in the operating room. We aimed to compare pain between GA and local anesthesia (LA) in surgically naïve children undergoing TTI. Secondary objectives examined patient's quality of life (QoL) and parent's satisfaction.

Evaluating the Need for Intensive Care Admission After Supraglottoplasty for Severe Laryngomalacia.

Objective: Postoperative airway concerns persist despite a low rate of post-supraglottoplasty complications for children with laryngomalacia. The objective of this study is to determine the factors associated with the need for intensive care unit (ICU) admission following supraglottoplasty.

Methods: A 7-year retrospective cohort analysis was conducted between 2014 and 2021.

Validation process of a high-resolution database in a paediatric intensive care unit-Describing the perpetual patient's validation.

Rationale: High data quality is essential to ensure the validity of clinical and research inferences based on it. However, these data quality assessments are often missing even though these data are used in daily practice and research.

Aims And Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the data quality of our high-resolution electronic database (HRDB) implemented in our paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Caffeine treatment for bronchiolitis-related apnea in the pediatric intensive care unit.

Introduction: Apnea is commonly encountered in children with bronchiolitis. Despite the lack of recommendations regarding bronchiolitis-related apnea (BRA) management, some pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) practitioners use caffeine treatment based on extrapolation from the recommendations for prematurity-related apnea management. The objectives of this study were to describe the management of BRA in our PICU, evaluate the caffeine prescription rate for this indication, and explore its potential effects on clinical outcomes.

Qualitative subjective assessment of a high-resolution database in a paediatric intensive care unit-Elaborating the perpetual patient's ID card.

Objective: The main purpose of our study was to subjectively assess the quality of a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) database according to the Directory of Clinical Databases (DoCDat) criteria.

Design And Setting: A survey was conducted between April 1 and June 15, 2018, among the Sainte Justine PICU research group.

Population: Every member of this group whose research activity required the use of the database and/or who was involved in the development/validation of the database.

Influence of implementing a protocol for an intravenously administered ammonia scavenger on the management of acute hyperammonemia in a pediatric intensive care unit.

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the influence of establishing a protocol for the use of combined sodium benzoate and sodium phenylacetate (SBSP) (Ammonul®) to treat acute hyperammonemia. This was a retrospective, single-center study in a 24-bed medical and surgical pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a tertiary care teaching maternal-child hospital in Canada. Inclusion criteria were age < 18 years, PICU admission between 1 January 2000 and 30 June 2016, and SBSP treatment.

Creating a High-Frequency Electronic Database in the PICU: The Perpetual Patient.

Objective: Our objective was to construct a prospective high-quality and high-frequency database combining patient therapeutics and clinical variables in real time, automatically fed by the information system and network architecture available through fully electronic charting in our PICU. The purpose of this article is to describe the data acquisition process from bedside to the research electronic database.

Design: Descriptive report and analysis of a prospective database.