Age-based centiles for diastolic blood pressure among children in the out-of-hospital emergency setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) diastolic blood pressure (DBP) criteria to empirically derived DBP criteria for the prediction of out-of-hospital interventions in children.

Methods

We performed a retrospective study of pediatric (<18 years) encounters from the ESO Data Collaborative, which includes approximately 2000 Emergency Medical Services agencies in the United States. We developed age-based centile curves for DBP using generalized additive models for location, scale, and shape. We compared the proportion of encounters with a low DBP when using empirically derived and PALS criteria and calculated their associations with the delivery of out-of-hospital interventions (advanced airway management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiac epinephrin

SUBMITTER: Ramgopal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9958513 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature