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Open AccessEffectiveness of Training Programs for Reducing Adverse Psychological Outcomes in Parents of Children with Acquired Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Parental stress following critical illness in their child has the potential to impact functional outcomes and quality of life for the child and whole family. Parent emotional functioning may also be an importa...
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Optic Nerve Sheath Viscoelastic Properties: Re-Examination of Biomechanical Behavior and Clinical Implications
Meta-analyses show a variable relationship between optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) and the presence of raised intracranial pressure (ICP). Because optic nerve sheath (ONS) tissue can be deformed, it is poss...
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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Children with Acute Catastrophic Brain Injury: A 13-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze clinical characteristics and outcomes in children with acute catastrophic brain injury (CBI).
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The brain in pediatric critical care: unique aspects of assessment, monitoring, investigations, and follow-up
As survival after pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission has improved over recent years, a key focus now is the reduction of morbidities and optimization of quality of life for survivors. Neurologic di...
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The Distinction Between Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria and Declaration of Death
The words determination and declaration are now embedded in medical narratives about defining death in individuals in an irreversible and unresponsive coma with apnea and no brainstem reflexes, i.e., death by neu...
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Executive summary: surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children
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Surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for the management of septic shock and sepsis-associated organ dysfunction in children
To develop evidence-based recommendations for clinicians caring for children (including infants, school-aged children, and adolescents) with septic shock and other sepsis-associated organ dysfunction.
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Author Correction: Neuroimmune disorders of the central nervous system in children in the molecular era
In the original version of this Review published online and in print, the contribution of attendees of the International Neuroimmune Meeting to the content of the Review was not acknowledged. The author list h...
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Neuroimmune disorders of the central nervous system in children in the molecular era
Immune-mediated disorders of the CNS in children are a complex group of demyelinating, inflammatory, parainfectious and postinfectious disorders with heterogeneous pathobiological mechanisms and clinical manif...
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Dealing with phthalates in medical devices: a case of primum non nocere (first do no harm)?
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Fluid resuscitation of shock in children: what, whence and whither?
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Sleep apnoea in syndromic craniosynostosis occurs independent of hindbrain herniation
Hindbrain herniation (HH) is frequently found in syndromic craniosynostosis. It may cause impairment of the respiratory centres and manifest as sleep-disordered breathing. Our aim was to quantify sleep apnoea ...
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Open AccessSeizures in 204 comatose children: incidence and outcome
Seizures are common in comatose children, but may be clinically subtle or only manifest on continuous electroencephalographic monitoring (cEEG); any association with outcome remains uncertain.
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Head Computed Tomography Scanning During Pediatric Neurocritical Care: Diagnostic Yield and the Utility of Portable Studies
We report our use of portable head computed tomography (CT) and the diagnostic yield and radiation dose from head CT in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
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The microcirculation of the critically ill pediatric patient
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Open AccessThe BRACELET Study: surveys of mortality in UK neonatal and paediatric intensive care trials
The subject of death and bereavement in the context of randomised controlled trials in neonatal or paediatric intensive care is under-researched. The objectives of this phase of the Bereavement and RAndomised ...
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External validation of the paediatric logistic organ dysfunction score
External validation of the paediatric logistic organ dysfunction (PELOD) score in two paediatric intensive care units (PICU) in South America.
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Nonaccidental Trauma and Shaken Baby Syndrome
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CPAP and HFOV: different guises of the same underlying intensive care strategy for supporting RSV bronchiolitis
