Early predictors of unfavorable outcomes in pediatric acute respiratory failure

Shinya Miura, Nobuaki Michihata, Toshiaki Isogai, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga · 2024

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Shinya Miura and co-authors studied early predictors of poor outcomes in children with acute respiratory failure in two thousand twenty-four. Breathing failure is a leading cause of critical illness in children. The team used a national inpatient database in Japan covering two thousand ten to two thousand twenty-two.

They included twenty-nine thousand three hundred sixty-two children who got ventilatory support in the first three days. Most received invasive ventilation, and pneumonia was the top diagnosis. About nine percent died in hospital or left with new health problems. Older age, underlying conditions, pneumonia, and treatment at a low-volume hospital each predicted worse outcomes. The authors say these early signs can guide risk sorting and care planning.

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CREATORShinya Miura, Nobuaki Michihata, Toshiaki Isogai, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE34 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11610168

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