Expanding elderly populations are a major social challenge in advanced countries
worldwide and have led to a rapid increase in the number of elderly patients in intensive …

Critical illness is a life-changing event for patients and their families. As mortality has
declined, many survivors experience new and persistent impairments in physical …

Objective: To investigate significant new morbidities associated with pediatric critical care.
Design: Randomly selected, prospective cohort. Setting: PICU patients from eight medical …

Seizures are common among critically ill children, but their relationship to outcome remains
unclear. We sought to quantify the relationship between electrographic seizure burden and …

Objective: To describe the characteristics of children admitted to intensive care in 1982,
1995, and 2005–2006, and their long-term outcome. Setting: Pediatric intensive care unit in …

Background Hypothermia therapy improves survival and the neurologic outcome in animal
models of traumatic brain injury. However, the effect of hypothermia therapy on the …

OBJECTIVE: The goal was to create a functional status outcome measure for large outcome
studies that is well defined, quantitative, rapid, reliable, minimally dependent on subjective …

Importance Functional status assessment methods are important as outcome measures for
pediatric critical care studies. Objective To investigate the relationships between the 2 …

Objective Given the current focus on outcomes, there is a crucial need for easily utilized
measures that can effectively quantify morbidity or disability after a child's critical illness or …

Background—Pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for> 20 minutes has been
considered futile after pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrests. This concept has recently been …