Unplanned Extubation During Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care: U.S. Multicenter Registry Study of Prevalence and Outcomes
Objectives: The epidemiology of unplanned extubations (UEs) and associated adverse outcomes in pediatric cardiac ICUs (CICU). Design: Registry data (August 2014 to October 2020). Setting: Forty-five Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium hospitals. Patients: Patients receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) via endotracheal tube (ETT). Interventions: None. Measurements and main results: Fifty-six thousand five hundred eight MV courses occurred in 36,696 patients, with a […]
Contemporary Care and Outcomes of Critically-ill Children With Clinically Diagnosed Myocarditis
Purpose: To describe contemporary management and outcomes in children with myocarditis who are admitted to a cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and to identify the characteristics associated with mortality. Methods: All patients in the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) registry between August 2014 and June 2021 who were diagnosed with myocarditis were included. Univariable analyses and […]