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SCCM Pod-470 PCCM: Adverse Events and Mortality in the PICU

The contribution of adverse events to the deaths of patients in the pediatric ICU (PICU) who die despite a low predicted mortality risk is unknown. Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by Carin W. Verlaat, MD, to discuss adverse events in low-risk nonsurvivors compared with low-risk survivors and high-risk PICU survivors and nonsurvivors and the contribution of adverse events to mortality.

Adverse events, Cohort studies, Outcomes, Patient Safety, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics

Association of Socioeconomic Status and Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes

Children being treated for sepsis stayed in the hospital longer if they lived in low-income ZIP codes compared to those who were from high-income ZIP codes, suggests a large national study being presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 50th Critical Care Congress.

Congress, outcomes, pediatric, Sepsis