Paediatric critical illness associated with respiratory infection: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe critically ill children with respiratory infections, classify them by infection syndrome type and determine the prevalence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae detection.

Study design

A retrospective, single-centre cohort study. All children aged 2 months-18 years with presumed respiratory infection who were admitted to a tertiary hospital paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) between September 2015 and October 2016 were eligible. Subjects were grouped by clinical syndrome (viral respiratory infection, asthma exacerbation, undifferentiated/uncomplicated pneumonia, pneumonia complicated by effusion/empyema and 'other'). All subjects had nasopharyngeal swabs tested for respiratory viruses, M. pneumoniae and Chlamydia pneumoniae.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Alfaraidi H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7213883 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature