Pediatric Critical Care Medicine May 2007
Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
Contents
Pertussis: Severe clinical presentation in pediatric intensive care and its relation to outcome*.
Pediatric staff perspectives on organ donation after cardiac death in children*.
Assessment of parental presence during bedside pediatric intensive care unit rounds: Effect on duration, teaching, and privacy*.
Institutional policies on determination of medically inappropriate interventions: Use in five pediatric patients*.
CME Increasing use of extracorporeal life support in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus sepsis in children*.
CME Implementation of a medical emergency team in a large pediatric teaching hospital prevents respiratory and cardiopulmonary arrests outside the intensive care unit*.
Continuing Medical Education Questions
CME Continuing Medical Education Questions.
Cardiac Intensive Care
Transhepatic Broviac catheter placement for long-term central venous access in critically ill children with complex congenital heart disease*.
Increased calcium supplementation is associated with morbidity and mortality in the infant postoperative cardiac patient*.
Neonatal Intensive Care
A preliminary report-Heparin counteracts indomethacin effect on ductus arteriosus in very low birthweight infants*.
Clinical Investigations
Abnormalities of coagulation related to the use of inhaled nitric oxide before extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Energy expenditure in critically ill children.
Mortality before and after initiation of a computerized physician order entry system in a critically ill pediatric population*.
Evidence-Based Journal Club
A critical appraisal of “Blind and bronchoscopic sampling methods in suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia: A multicentre prospective study”
Identification of adrenal insufficiency in pediatric critical illness*.
Tissue plasminogen activator for a left atrial thrombus after Senning repair.
Successful use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in severe necrotizing pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus*.
Critical pertussis may model organ failure in critical illness and injury*.
Organ donation after cardiac death: The subtle line between patient and donor care*.
Parental presence during bedside pediatric intensive care unit rounds*.
Avedis Kalloghlian, MD, FRCPC
Can policy spoil compassion?*.
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A new scourge so virulent even extracorporeal membrane oxygenation may not help?*.
Rapid response systems: Is yet another before-and-after trial needed?*.
Transhepatic approach as an alternative long-term central venous access in critically ill children with complex congenital heart disease: A new angle to an old problem?*.
Calcium: A double-edged sword*.
Patency of the ductus arteriosus in the newborn-Now you want it, now you don’t*.
Computerized physician order entry: Friend or foe?*.
Testing the waters*.
Letter to the Editor
Can somatostatin derivatives really be suggested in the treatment of chylothorax?
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine May 2007
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine May 2007