The characteristics, pattern of injury and outcome of children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit following an inflicted injury.

CONCLUSIONS: The majority of children admitted to intensive care following an inflicted injury are aged under 12 months. Children most commonly require intensive care for management of a head injury. Many children have radiological findings suggestive of pre-existing inflicted injury. Despite high mortality, the majority of children survive. While most are likely to be independent, many children will have residual disabilities. PMID: 28215128 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Critical Care and Resuscitation - Category: Intensive Care Tags: Crit Care Resusc Source Type: research