2016
Performance of the PEdiatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2 score in critically ill children requiring plasma transfusions
Karam O, Demaret P, Duhamel A, Shefler A, Spinella PC, Stanworth SJ, Tucci M, Leteurtre S, for the PlasmaTV investigators. Performance of the PEdiatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2 score in critically ill children requiring plasma transfusions. Annals Of Intensive Care 2016, 6: 98. PMID: 27714707, PMCID: PMC5053948, DOI: 10.1186/s13613-016-0197-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPELOD-2 scorePlasma transfusionIll childrenDay 1General pediatric intensive care unit populationPediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2 scorePediatric intensive care unit populationIntensive care unit populationSpecific subpopulationsOrgan dysfunction scoreProspective observational studyHosmer-Lemeshow testObserved mortality ratePELOD-2Dysfunction scoreClinical outcomesOrgan failureResultsFour hundredClinical trialsScore scoresSerial evaluationAncillary studiesObservational studyTransfusionUnit population
2010
Association between length of storage of transfused red blood cells and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in pediatric intensive care patients
Gauvin F, Spinella PC, Lacroix J, Choker G, Ducruet T, Karam O, Hébert PC, Hutchison JS, Hume HA, Tucci M, Network O. Association between length of storage of transfused red blood cells and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in pediatric intensive care patients. Transfusion 2010, 50: 1902-1913. PMID: 20456697, DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02661.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMultiple organ dysfunction syndromeProgressive multiple organ dysfunction syndromeOrgan dysfunction syndromeIll childrenDysfunction syndromePediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction scoreRed blood cell storage timeLogistic Organ Dysfunction scorePediatric intensive care patientsOrgan dysfunction scoreIntensive care patientsRBC storage timeMultivariate logistic regressionRed blood cellsDysfunction scoreCare patientsRestrictive groupIndependent associationCohort analysisPatientsHigh mortalityGreater riskLogistic regressionRBC unitsStudy design