Pediatr Crit Care Me
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To determine whether critically ill children are hypermetabolic and to calculate whether predictive equations are appropriate for critically ill children. ⋯ Children do not become hypermetabolic during critical illness. These data suggest that agreement between resting energy expenditure and the predictive equations are so broad that they are inappropriate for use in critically ill children.
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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Apr 2003
Multicenter StudyDying in the intensive care unit: collaborative multicenter study about forgoing life-sustaining treatment in Argentine pediatric intensive care units.
Describe modes of death and factors involved in decision-making together with life support limitation (LSL) procedures. ⋯ Most of the patients in Argentina underwent CPR before their death. We have a high proportion of patients with CD (65%) and low BD diagnosis. PO condition decreased LSL probability in chronically ill patients. Do-not-resuscitate orders and withholding new treatments were the most common LSL. Active withdrawal was exceptional. The Ethics Committee was consulted in 5% of the LSL population.