title: [The evolution of care for the critical child: pediatric intensive care].
abstract: Pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) have been developed to provide intensive care for children between post-neonatal age and adolescence. These units have largely been developed in North America, mainly in tertiary hospitals. In Italy, critically ill children are still often nursed on adult ICU's, where medical and nursing staff often lack pediatric training. Here we report the first 5-year experience of the multidisciplinary PICU developed at the Department of Pediatrics, University of Padua, focusing on PICU and patients characteristics, as well as on the evaluation of outcome by means of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) score.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Padova, Italia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chiandetti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pettenazzo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Biban
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cogo
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Corner
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Agosto
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Beccaro
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Malocco
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ferrarese
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Da Dalt
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zacchello
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015278:Intensive Care Units, Pediatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D007558:Italy
vernacular_title: L'evoluzione dell'assistenza al bambino critico: la terapia intensiva pediatrica.