Pediatr Crit Care Me
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2006
Multicenter StudyCapturing postoperative pain responses in critically ill infants aged 0 to 9 months.
The purpose of this study was to describe physiologic and behavioral pain behaviors in postoperative critically ill infants. A secondary aim was to identify how these pain responses vary over time. ⋯ Findings support the ability to capture different intensities of postoperative pain in critically ill infants beyond neonatal age. These pain indicators can be used for the development of a pain assessment tool for this group of infants.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jan 2006
Multicenter StudyVariation in pediatric intensive care therapies and outcomes by race, gender, and insurance status.
The differential allocation of medical resources to adult patients according to characteristics such as race, gender, and insurance status raises the serious concern that such issues apply to critically ill children as well. ⋯ Risk-adjusted mortality and resource use for critically ill children did not differ according to race, gender, or insurance status. Policies to expand health insurance to children appear more likely to affect physiologic derangement on admission rather than technical quality of care in the pediatric intensive care unit setting.