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Malnutrition as an independent predictor of clinical outcome in critically ill children.

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Malnutrition is common among children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) and this factor was not a predictor of mortality but showed independent association with length of mechanical ventilation.
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This article is published in Nutrition.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 172 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pediatric intensive care unit & Malnutrition.

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Nutritional Status Based on Body Mass Index Is Associated With Morbidity and Mortality in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Children in the PICU.

TL;DR: Malnutrition is prevalent in mechanically ventilated children on admission to PICUs worldwide and classification as underweight or obese was associated with higher risk of hospital-acquired infections and lower likelihood of hospital discharge.
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Effect of early supplemental parenteral nutrition in the paediatric ICU: a preplanned observational study of post-randomisation treatments in the PEPaNIC trial

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated which macronutrient was associated with harm caused by early supplemental parenteral nutrition in the Paediatric Early versus Late Parenterial Nutrition In Critical Illness (PEPaNIC) randomised trial.
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Subjective global assessment: a reliable nutritional assessment tool to predict outcomes in critically ill patients.

TL;DR: Comparison of SGA with other tests used to assess nutritional status showed that the correlation between the methods ranged from poor to superficial, and SGA is a reliable tool for predicting outcomes in critically ill patients.
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International pediatric sepsis consensus conference: definitions for sepsis and organ dysfunction in pediatrics.

TL;DR: The current criteria used to define SIRS and sepsis in adults were modified to incorporate pediatric physiologic variables appropriate for the following subcategories of children: newborn, neonate, infant, child, and adolescent.
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The impact of malnutrition on morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stay and costs evaluated through a multivariate model analysis.

TL;DR: It was concluded that malnutrition, as analyzed by a multivariate logistic regression model, is an independent risk factor impacting on higher complications and increased mortality, length of hospital stay and costs.
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Prognostic impact of disease-related malnutrition.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the studies investigating the prognostic implications of disease-related malnutrition and concludes that nutritional assessment is mandatory in order to recognise malnutrition early and initiate timely nutritional therapy.
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PIM2: a revised version of the Paediatric Index of Mortality

TL;DR: PIM2 has been re-calibrated to reflect the improvement that has occurred in intensive care outcome and is therefore suitable for continuous monitoring of the quality of paediatric intensive care.
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Weaning from mechanical ventilation

TL;DR: Weaning covers the entire process of liberating the patient from mechanical support and from the endotracheal tube and many controversial questions remain concerning the best methods for conducting this process as discussed by the authors.
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