A Survey of Stated Physician Practices and Beliefs on the Use of Steroids in Pediatric Fluid and/or Vasoactive Infusion-Dependent Shock*
| Autor: | James Dayre McNally, Margaret L. Lawson, Roxanne Ward, Tim Ramsay, Kusum Menon, Karen Choong, Hector R. Wong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Canada
medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel Cross-sectional study MEDLINE Intensive Care Units Pediatric Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Adrenal Cortex Hormones Surveys and Questionnaires Vasoactive Intensive care medicine Humans Practice Patterns Physicians' Child Intensive care medicine Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Septic shock business.industry Cardiovascular Agents Odds ratio medicine.disease Shock Septic Cardiac surgery Cross-Sectional Studies Shock (circulatory) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Fluid Therapy Adrenal Cortex Function Tests medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 14:462-466 |
| ISSN: | 1529-7535 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/pcc.0b013e31828a7287 |
| Popis: | Objective: Limited evidence exists on the use of corticosteroids in pediatric shock. We sought to determine physicians’ practices and beliefs with regard to the management of pediatric shock. Design: Cross-sectional, Internet-based survey. Setting: Canada. Subjects: Physicians identified as practicing pediatric intensive care in any of 15 academic centers. Measurements and Main Results: Seventy of 97 physicians (72.2%) responded. Physicians stated that they were more likely to prescribe steroids for septic shock than for shock following cardiac surgery (odds ratio, 1.9 [95% CI, 0.9–4.3]) or trauma (odds ratio, 11.46 [95% CI, 2.5–51.2]), and 91.4% (64/70) would administer steroids to patients who had received 60 cc/ kg of fluid and two or more vasoactive medications. Thirty-five percent of respondents (25/70) reported that they rarely or never conducted adrenal axis testing before giving steroids to patients in shock. Eighty-seven percent of respondents (61/70) stated that the role of steroids in the treatment of fluid and/or vasoactive drug-dependent shock needed to be clarified and that 84.3% would be willing to randomize patients into a trial of steroid efficacy who were fluid resuscitated and on one high-dose vasoactive medication. However, 74.3% stated that they would start open-label steroids in patients who required two high-dose vasoactive medications. Conclusions: This survey provides information on the stated beliefs and practices of pediatric critical care physicians with regard to the use of steroids in fluid and/or vasoactive drug-dependent shock. Clinicians feel that the role of steroids in shock still requires clarification and that they would be willing to randomize patients into a trial. This survey may be useful as an initial framework for the development of a future trial on the use of steroids in pediatric shock. (Pediatr Crit Care Med 2013; 14:462–466) |
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