To validate Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) and Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) score. All consecutive patients over a six month period were included in the study except patients with a PICU stay of less than 2 hours, those transferred to other PICUs, pediatric surgical cases, trauma patients and those dying within 24 hours of admission. The PRISM and PIM scores of all patients included in ...... hiện toàn bộ
Abdullah H Baqui, Emma Williams, Gary L. Darmstadt, Vishwajeet Kumar, T. U. Kiran, Dharmendra S Panwar, Arvind Pandey, Saifuddin Ahmed, V. Sreevasta, Ramesh C. Ahuja, Mathuram Santosham, Robert E. Black
Candidemia and disseminated candidiasis are major causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients especially in the intensive care units (ICU). The incidence of invasive candidasis is on a steady rise because of increasing use of multiple antibiotics and invasive procedures carried out in the ICUs. Worldwide there is a shifting trend from C. albicans towards non albicans species, with a...... hiện toàn bộ