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ArticleIntensive care medicine2015

Early fluid accumulation in children with shock and ICU mortality: a matched case-control study.

Priya Bhaskar, Archana V Dhar, Marita Thompson, Raymond Quigley, Vinai Modem

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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36 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Fluid bolus therapy in pediatric sepsis: a narrative review.European journal of medical research · 2022
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  18. Positive fluid balance is associated with death and severity of brain injury in neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021
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5 authors.

Priya BhaskarCardiac Intensive Care Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University, 225 East Chicago Avenue, Box 21, Chicago, IL, USA.
Archana V Dhar
Marita Thompson
Raymond Quigley
Vinai Modem

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between early fluid accumulation and mortality in children with shock states.

methodsWe retrospectively reviewed children admitted in shock states to the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at a tertiary level children's hospital over a 7-month period. The study was designed as a matched case-control study. Children with early fluid overload, defined as fluid accumulation of ≥10% of admission body weight during the initial 3 days, were designated as the cases. They were compared with matched controls without early fluid accumulation. Cases and controls were matched for age, severity of illness at ICU admission and need for organ support. They were compared with respect to all-cause ICU mortality and other secondary outcomes.

resultsA total of 114 children (age range 0-17.4 years; N = 42 cases and 72 matched controls) met the study criteria. Mortality rate was 13% (15/114) in this cohort. Multivariable logistic regression analysis identified the presence of early fluid overload [adjusted odds ratio (OR) 9.17, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.22-55.57], its severity (adjusted OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.05-1.19) and its duration (adjusted OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.21-2.28) as independent predictors of mortality. Cases had higher mortality than the controls (26 vs. 6 %; p 0.003), and this difference remained significant in the matched analysis (37 vs. 3%; p 0.002).

conclusionThe presence, severity and duration of early fluid are associated with increased ICU mortality in children admitted to the pediatric ICU in shock states.

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Hospital MortalityAdolescentCase-Control StudiesChildChild, PreschoolCritical IllnessFemaleHumansInfantIntensive Care Units, PediatricMaleRetrospective StudiesShockTertiary Care CentersWater-Electrolyte Imbalance

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