Implementation of a Follow-Up System for Pediatric Sepsis Survivors in a Large Academic Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT: Background: Survivors of pediatric sepsis often develop new morbidities and deterioration in quality of life after sepsis, leading to a need for improved follow-up for children who survive sepsis. Objective: To implement a follow-up system for pediatric sepsis survivors in a pediatric health system. Methods: We performed a retrospective case series of patients treated for sepsis from October 2018 through October 2019 in a pediatric intensive care unit in a quaternary children's hospital, and describe implementation of a follow-up system for sepsis survivors. Program planning started in 2017 with multidisciplinary meetings including physical, occupational, and speech therapists, teachers, neuropsychologists, and coordinators from other survivorship programs (neonatology

SUBMITTER: Fitzgerald JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212949 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature