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ArticleIndian journal of pediatrics2025

Infant Intensive Care Unit: Is it Time to Change?

Mehrnaz Olfat, Rayeheh Hosseinzadeh, Meisam Sharifzadeh, Seyed Abbas Hassani, Mehrdad Goudarzi, Masoud Mohammadpour

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Article in Indian journal of pediatrics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Mehrnaz OlfatChildren's Medical Center, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Rayeheh HosseinzadehFaculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Meisam SharifzadehChildren's Medical Center, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Seyed Abbas HassaniChildren's Medical Center, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mehrdad GoudarziChildren's Medical Center, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Masoud MohammadpourChildren's Medical Center, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. mmpour@tums.ac.ir.ORCID 0000-0001-7091-2572

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objectivesTo assess the effect of the Infant intensive care unit (InICU), a specialized unit for critically ill infants established in 2016 in authors' hospital, on infant mortality and compare the outcome with the current Pediatric intensive care units (PICU).

methodsIn this retrospective cross-sectional study, two groups were defined; the first included expired patients aged 1 mo to 2 y admitted to PICU before the establishment of the InICU (the PICU group). The second included age-matched expired patients admitted to the InICU (the InICU group). Data were recorded using a questionnaire.

resultsThe authors found that the age, sex, underlying diseases, the leading cause of admission to the ICU, time of death, hospital and ICU length of stay, and the pediatric index of mortality 2 (PIM 2) score were same between the two groups. The incidence of mortality in the PICU group was 10.66 in 1000 person-month. This value was 6.37 for the InICU group (P-value <0.001). The relative risk of mortality of patients admitted to the PICU group compared to the InICU group was 1.67 (P-value <0.001).

conclusionsEstablishment of age specific InICU for infants may be beneficial in reducing infant mortality.

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Critical IllnessHospital MortalityInfant MortalityIntensive Care Units, PediatricChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansIndiaInfantInfant, NewbornLength of StayMaleRetrospective StudiesInfantIntensive care unitMortalityPediatric

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