Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PCCM)

• Risk Factors for Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Investigators attempted to identify risk factors for central line-associated bloodstream infections in a pediatric intensive care unit.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, September 2009
• Using Acupuncture for Acute Pain in Hospitalized Children This study attempted to determine whether acupuncture may be a potentially useful adjunctive tool for acute pediatric postoperative pain management.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, September 2009
• The Effect of Aprotinin, Tranexamic Acid, and Aminocaproic Acid on Blood Loss and Use of Blood Products in Major Pediatric Surgery: A Meta-Analysis. Are tranexamic acid and aminocaproic acid as effective as aprotinin for reducing blood loss and transfusion in children undergoing major surgery?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, March 2009
• Weaning and Extubation Readiness in Pediatric Patients Weaning and extubation literature for pediatric patients on mechanical ventilation is systematically reviewed, and the authors have identified a gap that needs to be filled.Learn more.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, January 2009
• Cranial Computed Tomographic Findings in a Large Group of Children With Drowning: Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Forensic Implications This retrospective chart review defines both the type and incidence of cranial computed tomography abnormalities in children following submersion injury.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, November 2008
• A Comprehensive Review of Pediatric Endotracheal Suctioning: Effects, Indications, and Clinical Practice What gaps exist in the evidence base for pediatric endotracheal suctioning? These authors survey the literature to try and identify best practice standards.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, September 2008
• Complications Associated With Arterial Catheterization in Children. This study serves as a hypothesis-generating report and suggests the need to carefully assess arterial catheter-associated complications in a prospective study independent of CVCs.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, July 2008
• Assessment of Cardiac Output in Children: A Comparison Between the Pressure Recording Analytical Method and Doppler Echocardiography Does PRAM provides reliable estimates of cardiac output when compared with noninvasive techniques?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, May 2008
• Pediatric Organ Donation: What Factors Most Influence Parents' Donation Decisions? Is organ donation more likely when the parent is a registered organ donor?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, March 2008
• Parents' Perspectives on Physician-parent Communication Near the Time of a Child's Death in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit How well do you communicate bad news about a child’s illness to parents?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, January 2008
• A History of Adjunctive Glucocorticoid Treatment for Pediatric Sepsis: Moving Beyond Steroid Pulp Fiction Toward Evidence-based Medicine Therapeutic corticosteroid indications that initially seemed rational have frequently been refuted on closer, rigorous clinical trial inspection.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, November 2007
• Using Pediatric Advanced Life Support in Pediatric Residency Training: Does the Curriculum Need Resuscitation? Despite the widespread use of PALS in North America, its effectiveness has not been formally assessed in pediatric residents.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, September 2007
• Association of Nursing Workload and Unplanned Extubations in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Did the likelihood of an unplanned extubation increase with higher patient/nurse and patient acuity/nurse ratios?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, July 2007
• Pediatric Staff Perspectives on Organ Donation After Cardiac Death in Children This article addresses the issue of pediatric organ donation (DCD) from the staff's perspective and examines what staff members believe are essential elements of a model pediatric DCD program.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, May 2007
• Validity and Reliability of the Behavioural Observational Pain Scale for Postoperative Pain Measurement in Children 1-7 Years of Age The validity and reliability of the Behavioural Observational Pain Scale (BOPS) as a postoperative pain measurement scale was evaluated for use in children aged 1-7 yrs.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, February 2007
• Pilot Study To Determine The Hemodynamic Safety and Feasibility of Magnesium Sulfate Infusion In Children With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Does magnesium sulfate decrease mean arterial pressure or cerebral perfusion pressure, increase intracranial pressure, or adversely effect cardiac conduction in children with severe brain injury?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, January 2007
• Arterial Pulse Wave Analysis: An Accurate Means Of Determining Cardiac Output In Children Arterial pulse wave analysis by the PulseCO system provides a novel, minimally invasive method of determining real-time cardiac output in children.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, November 2006
• Early Experience With Levosimendan in Children With Ventricular Dysfunction Can Levosimendan, a new calcium-sensitizing agent, be used safely in critically ill infants and children with severe heart failure?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, September 2006
• Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation: Five Years of Experience in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Could noninvasive positive pressure ventilation be proposed as a first-line treatment in children with acute respiratory distress?
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, July 2006
• ENHANCE: Results of a Global Open-Label Trial of Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) in Children With Severe Sepsis In the ENHANCE Trial, subgroups at higher risk of death were identified, and the change in protein C level from baseline was predictive of survival.
  Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, May 2006