Acute Kidney Injury in Children
The concept and definition of acute kidney injury (AKI) in adults and children has undergone significant change in recent years. Biomarker assessment is aiding in description, defining and understanding timing…
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Advances in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
Pediatric cardiac critical care has made, and continues to make, significant strides in improving outcomes. It is a measure of these successes that much of the discussion in this article…
Advances in Monitoring and Management of Shock
Early recognition and treatment of pediatric shock, regardless of cause, decreases mortality and improves outcome. In addition to the conventional parameters (eg, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, urine output, and…
Advances in Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Acute Lung Injury
This article focuses on the respiratory management and monitoring of pediatric acute lung injury (ALI) as a specific cause for respiratory failure. Definitive, randomized, controlled trials in pediatrics to guide…
Advances in Recognition, Resuscitation, and Stabilization of the Critically Ill Child
Advances in early recognition, effective response, and high-quality resuscitation before, during, and after cardiac arrest have resulted in improved survival for infants and children over the past 10 years. This…
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Business Model
All pediatric intensivists need a primer on ICU finance. The author describes potential alternate revenue sources for the division. Differentiating units by size or academic affiliation, the author describes drivers…
Telemedicine in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Telemedicine technologies involve real-time, live, interactive video and audio communication and allow pediatric critical care physicians to have a virtual presence at the bedside of any critically ill child. Telemedicine…
The High-Reliability Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
In health care, reliability is the measurable capability of a process, procedure, or health service to perform its intended function in the required time under actual or existing conditions (as…
The Evolving Model of Pediatric Critical Care Delivery in North America
The past 50 years have witnessed the emergence and evolution of the modern pediatric ICU and the specialty of pediatric critical care medicine. ICUs have become key in the delivery…
Care of the Critically Ill Pediatric Patient
Derek S. Wheeler, MD, MMM, Editor Pediatric critical care medicine is a surprisingly new subspecialty. While pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) were first developed in the late 1950s and early…
