… Support of a failing renal system is increasingly being recognized as a vital component of
the overall critical care of the child with multiorgan system failure. Renal replacement therapies …

… accepted consensus guidelines for the critical care management of severe sepsis and septic
shock, including recommendations for paediatric disease. These guidelines were updated …

… Critical care ultrasonography There is increasing use of bedside ultrasonography in the
paediatric critical care … well-established and is now standard of care for central vascular access. …

… CARE MEDICINE 7:1 In the UK, almost all children with critical illness are cared for in paediatric
intensive care units (… and trained in paediatrics and paediatric intensive care medicine in …

… CONSIDERATIONS Although this section is entitled intraoperative considerations, it should
be stressed that in the paediatric … care that should be jointly provided by the paediatrician, …

… The first internationally accepted consensus guidelines for the critical care management
of severe sepsis and septic shock, including recommendations for paediatric disease were …

… Around 20,000 children are admitted to paediatric critical care units (PCCU) in the UK each
year, with an average admission rate of 143 per 100,000 childhood population per year. The …

… Perhaps the most striking deficit in paediatric critical care knowledge is that we do not know
the optimal values for vital signs, including oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure …

… are all ethically essential considerations in the establishment … With the burgeoning interest
in paediatric critical care, we … the quality of care children receive in resourcelimited settings. …

… Of 4717 studies only 17 papers were reviewed in full as they potentially featured public
involvement with service users associated with a paediatric critical care setting. These were …