2021
Availability and Quality of Grief and Bereavement Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units Around the World, Opportunities for Improvement
Grunauer M, Mikesell C, Bustamante G, Aronowitz D, Zambrano K, Icaza-Freire A, Gavilanes A, Barrera R, Group T, González J, López-Herce J, Rossetti E, Fabrizio C, Karam O, Saint-Faust M, Biban P, Carlassara S, von Dessauer B, Ordenes N, Urízar F, A A, Canarie M, Miller K, Irazuzta J, Tawfik D, Tucker E, Shilkofski N, Wenchao W, Yuxia Z, See L, Priscilla, Tekin R, Aktar F, Düzkaya D, Dursun O, Ongun E, Yilmaz R, Yildizdas D, Tekgüç H, Sazonov V, Tsoy T, Sazonov V, Saparov A, Sazonov V, Kalmbakh E, Grunauer M, Quiñones E, Eguiguren L, Briones K, Tovilla Y, Gómez S, Torres S, Cobarrubias P, Dmytriiev D, Martínez A, Guzaman G, Sanabria R, Krupanandan R, Ramachandran B, Choraria N, Patel J, Pooni P, Gill K, Appiah J, Heye T, Argaw R, Demtse A, Admasu I. Availability and Quality of Grief and Bereavement Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units Around the World, Opportunities for Improvement. Frontiers In Pediatrics 2021, 9: 742916. PMID: 34869100, PMCID: PMC8634722, DOI: 10.3389/fped.2021.742916.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPediatric intensive care unitHealth care professionalsIntensive care unitHigh-income countriesCare unitUpper middle-income countriesBereavement careFulfillment scoresPalliative care consultation servicePediatric palliative careTrajectory of illnessProspective survey studyAge/genderTime of deathUnit infrastructurePatient characteristicsMiddle-income countriesMultidisciplinary carePalliative careIll childrenCare professionalsDirect careChild deathsCountry income levelLimited patient data
2015
Indications and Effects of Plasma Transfusions in Critically Ill Children
Karam O, Demaret P, Shefler A, Leteurtre S, Spinella PC, Stanworth SJ, Tucci M. Indications and Effects of Plasma Transfusions in Critically Ill Children. American Journal Of Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine 2015, 191: 1395-1402. PMID: 25859890, DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201503-0450oc.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInternational normalized ratioMedian international normalized ratioPlasma transfusionIll childrenCoagulation testsBaseline international normalized ratioPediatric intensive care patientsPediatric intensive care unitPartial thromboplastin time valuesCritically Ill ChildrenPoint prevalence studyIntensive care patientsIntensive care unitStrong evidence baseMinor bleedingPostoperative bleedingMost patientsPatient characteristicsTransfusion strategyCare patientsCare unitCritical bleedingNormalized ratioPrimary indicationTransfusion