Derivation and Validation of an Objective Effort of Breathing Score in Critically Ill Children.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To derive and validate a score that correlates with an objective measurement of a child's effort of breathing.

Design

Secondary analysis of a previously conducted observational study.

Setting

The pediatric and cardiothoracic ICUs of a quaternary-care children's hospital.

Patients

Patients more than 37 weeks gestational age to age 18 years who were undergoing extubation.

Interventions

Effort of breathing was measured in patients following extubation using esophageal manometry to calculate pressure rate product. Simultaneously, members of a multidisciplinary team (nurse, physician, and respiratory therapist) assessed respiratory function using a previously validated tool. Elements of the tool that were significantly associated with pressure rate

SUBMITTER: Shein SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322953 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature