title: [Tasks and organization of a pediatric intensive care unit].
abstract: Paediatric intensive care medicine mainly involves infants during the neonatal period and, in particular, premature babies. 70% of the children on assisted ventilation at the paediatric hospital of Graz University in 1985 and 1986 were neonates. Older children needing mechanical ventilation comprised only 1.6% of the total number of patients at our paediatric hospital. Paediatric intensive care units are therefore almost exclusively neonatal care units. Otherwise when serving the needs of children beyond the neonatal period these units are mostly required by paediatric subspecialities (i.e. cardiology, burns unit etc.). In view of the small number of patients in this group a high-standard paediatric intensive care unit should be multidisciplinary and preferentially attached to a university hospital rather than a regional hospital so as to maximise experience in the management of these children and ensure optimal care.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Kinderklinik Graz.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Grubbauer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trop
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zobel
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration; D012127:Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: Aufgaben und Organisation einer pädiatrischen Intensivstation (PIPS).