Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Complications in Critically Ill Children: A Prospective Study

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 89 (6) ◽  
pp. 1145-1150
Author(s):  
Jeffery S. Garland ◽  
Peter Havens ◽  
W. Michael Dunne ◽  
Mary Hintermeyer ◽  
Mary Anne Bozzette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critically Ill ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Bacterial Colonization ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Coagulase Negative Staphylococcus ◽  
Complication Rates ◽  
Catheter Colonization ◽  
Peripheral Intravenous Catheter

Six hundred fifty-four peripheral Teflon catheters in 303 pediatric intensive care unit patients were examined to determine complication rates and associated risk factors. Phlebitis, extravasation, and bacterial colonization occurred at rates of 13%, 28%, and 11%, respectively. Logistic regression of factors that increased phlebitis risk revealed infusion of hyperalimentation (odds ratio 2.9) or lorazepam (odds ratio 2.2) and catheter location (odds ratio 2.9) as the most important determinants of phlebitis risk. Age (≤1 year, odds ratio 2.0), catheter time in situ (≤72 hours, odds ratio 2.1), and infusion of antiepileptics (odds ratio 2.1) were the most important determinants of extravasation. Catheters were colonized most frequently with coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (51/54). Sepsis attributable to catheter colonization occurred in 1 patient. Duration of catheter placement (≥144 hours, odds ratio 5.8) was an important determinant of catheter colonization. Colonization risk increased from 11% in catheters that were in situ for 48 to 144 hours to 34% for catheters that were in for longer than 144 hours. Infusion of diazepam (odds ratio 11.0) or lipid emulsions (odds ratio 2.5) and age (≤1 year, odds ratio 2.2) were also important determinants of colonization risk. Replacing catheters in critically ill children every 72 hours would not decrease phlebitis, bacterial colonization, or catheter-induced sepsis and could increase extravasation risk. Catheters can be safely maintained with adequate monitoring for up to 144 hours in critically ill children.

Targeting zero catheter-related bloodstream infections in pediatric intensive care unit: a retrospective matched case-control study

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele G. Biasucci ◽  
Mauro Pittiruti ◽  
Alessandra Taddei ◽  
Enzo Picconi ◽  
Alessandro Pizza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critically Ill ◽  
Bacterial Colonization ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Bloodstream Infections ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Exit Site ◽  
Skin Antisepsis ◽  
Indwelling Time ◽  
Management Recommendations ◽  
Crbsi Rate

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of a new three-component ‘bundle’ for insertion and management of centrally inserted central catheters (CICCs), designed to minimize catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) in critically ill children. Methods: Our ‘bundle’ has three components: insertion, management, and education. Insertion and management recommendations include: skin antisepsis with 2% chlorhexidine; maximal barrier precautions; ultrasound-guided venipuncture; tunneling of the catheter when a long indwelling time is expected; glue on the exit site; sutureless securement; use of transparent dressing; chlorhexidine sponge dressing on the 7th day; neutral displacement needle-free connectors. All CICCs were inserted by appropriately trained physicians proficient in a standardized simulation training program. Results: We compared CRBSI rate per 1000 catheters-days of CICCs inserted before adoption of our new bundle with that of CICCs inserted after implementation of the bundle. CICCs inserted after adoption of the bundle remained in place for a mean of 2.2 days longer than those inserted before. We found a drop in CRBSI rate to 10%, from 15 per 1000 catheters-days to 1.5. Conclusions: Our data suggest that a bundle aimed at minimizing CR-BSI in critically ill children should incorporate four practices: (1) ultrasound guidance, which minimizes contamination by reducing the number of attempts and possible break-down of aseptic technique; (2) tunneling the catheter to obtain exit site in the infra-clavicular area with reduced bacterial colonization; (3) glue, which seals and protects the exit site; (4) simulation-based education of the staff.

Characteristics of Medically Transported Critically Ill Children with Respiratory Failure in Latin America: Implications for Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus A. Serra ◽  
Franco Díaz ◽  
Pablo Cruces ◽  
Cristobal Carvajal ◽  
Maria J. Nuñez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Respiratory Failure ◽  
Acute Respiratory Failure ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Adjusted Odds Ratio ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Resource Limited

AbstractSeveral challenges exist for referral and transport of critically ill children in resource-limited regions such as Latin America; however, little is known about factors associated with clinical outcomes. Thus, we aimed to describe the characteristics of critically ill children in Latin America transferred to pediatric intensive care units for acute respiratory failure to identify risk factors for mortality. We analyzed data from 2,692 patients admitted to 28 centers in the Pediatric Collaborative Network of Latin America Acute Respiratory Failure Registry. Among patients referred from another facility (773, 28%), nonurban transports were independently associated with mortality (adjusted odds ratio = 9.4; 95% confidence interval: 2.4–36.3).

A Report of 7-Year Experience on Pediatric Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 985-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayse Filiz Yetimakman ◽  
Selman Kesici ◽  
Murat Tanyildiz ◽  
Umut Selda Bayrakci ◽  
Benan Bayrakci
Keyword(s):  
Critically Ill ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Fluid Overload ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Standardized Mortality Ratio ◽  
Inborn Errors ◽  
Fluid Removal ◽  
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies ◽  
Organ Failures

Background: Continuous renal replacement therapies (CRRTs) either as continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) or hemodiafiltration (CVVHD) are used frequently in critically ill children. Many clinical variables and technical issues are known to affect the result. The factors that could be modified to increase the survival of renal replacement are sought. As a contribution, we present the data on 104 patients who underwent CRRT within a 7-year period. Materials and Method: A total of 104 patients admitted between 2009 and 2016 were included in the study. The demographic information, admittance pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM) scores, indication for CRRT, presence of fluid overload, CRRT modality, durations of CRRT, and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) stay were compared between survivors and nonsurvivors. Results: The overall rate of survival was 51%. Patients with fluid overload had significantly increased rate of death, CRRT duration, and PICU stay. Multiorgan dysfunction syndrome as the indication for CRRT was significantly related to decreased survival when compared to acute renal failure and acute attacks of metabolic diseases. The CRRT modality was not different between survivors and nonsurvivors. Standardized mortality ratio of the group was calculated to be 0.8. Conclusion: The CRRT in critically ill patients is successful in achieving fluid removal and correction of metabolic imbalances caused by organ failures or attacks of inborn errors of metabolism. It has a positive effect on expected mortality in high-risk PICU patients. To affect the outcome, follow-up should be focused on starting therapy in early stages of fluid overload. Prospective studies defining relative importance of risk factors causing mortality can assist in building up guidelines to affect the outcome.

Electrographic Seizures and Outcome in Critically Ill Children

Neurology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012032
Author(s):  
France W. Fung ◽  
Zi Wang ◽  
Darshana S. Parikh ◽  
Marin Jacobwitz ◽  
Lisa Vala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Cerebral Performance Category ◽  
Unfavorable Outcome ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Acute Encephalopathy ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Electrographic Seizures ◽  
Neurobehavioral Outcomes

Objective:To determine the association between electroencephalographic seizure (ES) and electroencephalographic (ESE) exposure and unfavorable neurobehavioral outcomes in critically ill children with acute encephalopathy.Methods:This was a prospective cohort study of acutely encephalopathic critically ill children undergoing CEEG. ES exposure was assessed as: (1) no ES/ESE, (2) ES, or (3) ESE. Outcomes assessed at discharge included the Glasgow Outcome Scale - Extended Pediatric Version (GOS-E-Peds), Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category (PCPC), and mortality. Unfavorable outcome was defined as a reduction in GOS-E-Peds or PCPC score from pre-admission to discharge. Stepwise selection was used to generate multivariate logistic regression models that assessed associations between ES exposure and outcomes while adjusting for multiple other variables.Results:Among 719 consecutive critically ill subjects, there was no evidence of ES in 535 subjects (74.4%), ES in 140 subjects (19.5%), and ESE in 44 subjects (6.1%). The final multivariable logistic regression analyses included ES exposure, age dichotomized at 1-year, acute encephalopathy category, initial EEG background category, comatose at CEEG initiation, and the Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 score. There was an association between ESE and unfavorable GOS-E-Peds (Odds Ratio 2.21, 95%CI 1.07-4.54) and PCPC (Odds Ratio 2.17, 95%CI 1.05-4.51) but not mortality. There was no association between ES and unfavorable outcome or mortality.Conclusions:Among acutely encephalopathic critically ill children, there was an association between ESE and unfavorable neurobehavioral outcomes, but no association between ESE and mortality. ES exposure was not associated with unfavorable neurobehavioral outcomes or mortality.

scholarly journals Use of body composition and phase angle analysis for the assessment of nutritional status and clinical outcomes in critically ill children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zi-Hong Xiong ◽  
Xue-Mei Zheng ◽  
Guo-Ying Zhang ◽  
Meng-Jun Wu ◽  
Yi Qu
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Phase Angle ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Duration Time

Abstract BackgroundMalnutrition is highly prevalent in critically ill children in the pediatric intensive care unit .We aimed to investigate the efficiency of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) measurements and phase angle (PhA) analysis for the assessment of nutritional risk and clinical outcomes in critically ill children.MethodsThis single-center observational study included patients admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of Chengdu Women’s and Children’s Central Hospital. All patients underwent anthropometric measurement in the first 24 h of admission and underwent BIA measurements within 3 days after the admission. The patients were classified into different groups based on body mass index (BMI) for age. Electronic hospital medical records were reviewed to collect clinical data for each patient. All the obtained data were analyzed by the statistics method.ResultsThere were 204 patients enrolled in our study, of which 32.4% were diagnosed with malnutrition. We found that BMI, arm muscle circumference, fat mass, and %body fat were lower in the group with poorer nutritional status (P < 0.05). Evident differences in the score of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality and the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV) among the three groups with different nutritional statuses were observed (P < 0.05). Patients in the severely malnourished group had the longest duration of MV. In the MV groups, there were significant differences (P < 0.05) in albumin level, PhA, and extracellular water/total body water (ECW/TBW ratio). The ECW/TBW ratio and the time for PICU stay had a weak degree of correlation (Pearson correlation coefficient = 0.375). PhA showed a weak degree of correlation with the duration time of medical ventilation (coefficient of correlation = 0.398).ConclusionBIA can be considered an alternative way to assess nutritional status in critically ill children. ECW/TBW ratio and PhA were correlated with PICU stay and duration time of medical ventilation, respectively.

scholarly journals Urinary CXCL10 is Associated with Acute Kidney Injury and Sepsis, and Predicts Mortality in Critically Ill Children

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Huang ◽  
Huiting Zhou ◽  
Wenwen Wang ◽  
Xiaomei Dai ◽  
Wenjing Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Acute Kidney Injury ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Inflammatory Mediator ◽  
Kidney Injury ◽  
Pediatric Intensive Care ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Surviving Sepsis Campaign ◽  
Predictive Values ◽  
Specific Setting ◽  
Potential Indicator

Abstract Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) biomarkers are often susceptible to confounding factors, limiting their utility as a specific biomarker, in the prediction of AKI, especially in heterogeneous population. The urinary CXC motif chemokine 10 (uCXCL10), as an inflammatory mediator, has been proposed to be a biomarker for AKI in a specific setting. Whether uCXCL10 is associated with AKI and predicts AKI in critically ill patients remains unclear. The aims of the study were to investigate clinical variables potentially associated with uCXCL10 levels and determine the associations of uCXCL10 with AKI, sepsis and PICU mortality in critically ill children, as well as its predictive values of aforementioned issues. Methods: Urinary CXCL10 levels were serially measured in a heterogeneous group of children during the first week after pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission. AKI diagnosis was based on the criteria of Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes with serum creatinine and urine output. Sepsis was diagnosed according to surviving sepsis campaign international guidelines for children. Mortality was defined as all-cause death occurring during the PICU stay.Results: Among 342 critically ill children, 52 (15.2%) developed AKI during the first week after PICU admission, and 132 (38.6%) were diagnosed as sepsis and 30 (12.3%) died during PICU stay. Both the initial and peak values of uCXCL10 remained independently associated with AKI with adjusted odds ratios (AORs) of 1.791 (P = 0.010) and 2.002 (P = 0.002), sepsis with AORs of 1.679 (P = 0.003) and 1.752 (P = 0.002), septic AKI with AORs of 3.281 (P <0.001) and 3.172 (P <0.001), and PICU mortality with AORs of 2.779 (P = 0.001) and 3.965 (P <0.001), respectively. The AUCs of the initial uCXCL10 for predicting AKI, sepsis, septic AKI, and PICU mortality were 0.63 (0.53-0.72), 0.62 (0.56-0.68), 0.75 (0.64-0.87), and 0.77 (0.68-0.86), respectively. The AUCs for prediction by using peak uCXCL10 were as follows: AKI 0.65 (0.56-0.75), sepsis 0.63 (0.57-0.69), septic AKI 0.76 (0.65-0.87), and PICU mortality 0.84 (0.76-0.91).Conclusions: Urinary CXCL10 is independently associated with AKI and sepsis, and may be a potential indicator of septic AKI and PICU mortality in critically ill children.

Clinical Features and Risk Factors Associated with Mortality in Critically ill Children Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhterem Duyu ◽  
Ceren Turkozkan
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Respiratory Failure ◽  
Renal Replacement Therapy ◽  
Renal Disease ◽  
Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Critically Ill Children ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
High Lactate

Abstract Background: The aims of this study were to describe the epidemiology and demographic characteristics of critically ill children requiring continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) at our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and to explore risk factors associated with mortality. Methods: A retrospective cohort of 121 critically ill children who received CRRT from May 2015 to May 2020 in the PICU of a tertiary healthcare institution was evalauted. The demographic information, admission diagnosis, indication for CRRT, clinical variables at the initiation of CRRT, time related variables and the laboratory results at initiation of CRRT were compared between survivors and non-survivors.Results: The most common diagnoses were renal disease (30.6%), hemato-oncological disease (12.4%), and sepsis (11.6%). The overall mortality was 29.8%. When compared according to diagnosis at admission, we found that patients with hemato-oncologic disease (73.3%) and those with pneumonia/respiratory failure (72.7%) had the highest mortality, while patients with renal disease had the lowest mortality (5.4%). The most common CRRT indications were: electrolyte or acid base imbalance (38.8%), acute kidney injury (29.8%) and fluid overload (14.9%). There was no relationship between mortality and indication for CRRT. The time interval between PICU admission and CRRT initiation was also unassociated with mortality (p=0.146). In patients diagnosed with sepsis, time until the initiation of CRRT was significantly shorter in survivors compared to non-survivors (p=0.004). Based on multivariate logistic regression, presence of comorbidity (odds ratio: 5.71; %95 CI: 1.16-27.97), being diagnosed with pneumonia/respiratory failure at admission (odds ratio: 16.16; %95 CI: 1.56-167.01), and high lactate level at the initiation of CRRT (odds ratio: 1.43; %95 CI: 1.17-1.79) were independently associated with mortality.Conclusions: In the context of the population studied mortality rate was lower than previously reported. In critically ill children requiring CRRT, mortality seems to be related to underlying disease, presence of comorbidity, and high lactate levels at CRRT initiation. We also found that early initiation of CRRT in sepsis can reduce mortality.

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