Rare Child Case Shows How Low-Dose Heparin Steered ECMO Through a Deadly Clot-Bleeding Dilemma
A case report describes how a 10-year-old girl with protein S deficiency survived a massive pulmonary embolism on ECMO using ...
Tag: pediatric critical care
Inside the Race to Treat the Deadliest Brain Vascular Malformation in Newborns
A new review synthesizes advances in fetal imaging, endovascular therapy, genetics, and long-term neurodevelopmental care for vein of Galen malformation, ...
Pediatric Mortality Score Outperforms Neonatal Gold Standards in Surgical NICU Study
A retrospective study at Great Ormond Street Hospital finds the PIM-3 score matches or exceeds SNAPPE II and SNAP II ...
When a Fever Attacks the Brain and Heart: A Rare Childhood Syndrome Challenges Doctors
A case report from Tehran describes a four-year-old girl with acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood complicated by fulminant myocarditis, highlighting ...
Therapeutic Plasma Exchange Shows Strong Safety Record in Critically Ill Children, Single-Center Study Finds
A five-year retrospective study of 144 critically ill children found therapeutic plasma exchange to be generally safe, with multiple organ ...
Kidney Dialysis Circuit Doubles as Lung Support in Children With Severe ARDS
A German pediatric team reports that integrating carbon dioxide removal into an existing dialysis circuit rapidly lowered carbon dioxide levels ...
ECMO Survivors Face Physical Setbacks, but Executive Function and Parental Stress Drive Long-Term Quality of Life
A prospective matched study finds that executive dysfunction and parental stress, rather than ECMO itself, are the strongest predictors of ...
When a ‘Clean’ Spinal Tap Deceives: Adenovirus Strikes Toddlers’ Brains and Bodies
A Vietnamese case series documents four previously healthy toddlers with severe multisystem adenovirus illness, positive cerebrospinal fluid PCR, and near-normal ...
Reducing Apneic Time in Critically Ill Children
In the realm of pediatric critical care, tracheal intubation (TI) remains a cornerstone intervention vital for ensuring adequate ventilation and ...
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