Functional Outcomes and Morbidity in Pediatric Sepsis Survivors: A Tanzanian Experience.

ABSTRACT: Pediatric sepsis remains a significant cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, disproportionately affecting resource-limited settings. As more patients survive, it is paramount that we improve our understanding of post-sepsis morbidity and its impact on functional outcomes. The functional status scale (FSS) is a pediatric validated outcome measure quantifying functional impairment, previously demonstrating decreased function following critical illnesses, including sepsis, in resource-rich settings. However, functional outcomes utilizing the FSS in pediatric sepsis survivors have never been studied in resource-limited settings or in non-critically ill septic children. In a Tanzanian cohort of pediatric sepsis patients, we aimed to evaluate morbidity associated with an acute septic episo

SUBMITTER: Lau-Braunhut SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8801911 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature