Pulmonary specialist involvement in critical asthma in the pediatric intensive care unit: A retrospective review
| Autor: | M Carolina Gazzaneo, Mackenzie Zier, Janaki Paskaradevan, Jorge A. Coss-Bu, Brian Rissmiller, Julie P. Katkin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent medicine.medical_treatment Status Asthmaticus Intensive Care Units Pediatric Single Center Internal medicine medicine Humans Child Retrospective Studies Asthma Pediatric intensive care unit Mechanical ventilation Retrospective review business.industry Attendance Infant Length of Stay medicine.disease Pulmonology Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Pulmonary specialist Emergency medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Pulmonology. 57:395-402 |
| ISSN: | 1099-0496 8755-6863 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ppul.25780 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood.1 There is a scarcity of published literature on critical asthma,2 considered acute asthma requiring pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission.3 The goal of this study was to describe the clinical care of children with critical asthma admitted to a single center PICU and to determine whether pulmonary medicine consultation during admission impacted outcomes. METHODS Retrospective chart review of known asthma patients aged 4 to 18 years admitted to a quaternary PICU between 01/2013 and 07/2019 for management of critical asthma. RESULTS 179 patients were enrolled with median age of 8 years. Median hospital length of stay (LOS) was 3.2 days and PICU LOS was 1.5 days. Eighty (44.7 %) patients had a pulmonary medicine consultation. In the pulmonary medicine consultation group vs. the no-pulmonary medicine consultation group, there was a significant difference in hospital LOS (4.16 vs. 2.86 days, p-value |
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