The Epidemiology of Hospital Death Following Pediatric Severe Sepsis: When, Why, and How Children With Sepsis Die.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The epidemiology of in-hospital death after pediatric sepsis has not been well characterized. We investigated the timing, cause, mode, and attribution of death in children with severe sepsis, hypothesizing that refractory shock leading to early death is rare in the current era.

Design

Retrospective observational study.

Setting

Emergency departments and ICUs at two academic children's hospitals.

Patients

Seventy-nine patients less than 18 years old treated for severe sepsis/septic shock in 2012-2013 who died prior to hospital discharge.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Time to death from sepsis recognition, cause and mode of death, and attribution of death to sepsis were determined from medical records. Organ dysfunction

SUBMITTER: Weiss SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5581233 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature