Leya Saju, Mallory B Smith, Elizabeth Ainsworth, Jessica M Goldberg, Daniel J Chertow, Mary E Hartman
{"title":"Feasibility and Acceptability of Mobile Phone-Based Surveys to Identify Mental Health Symptoms in Parents/Guardians of PICU Patients.","authors":"Leya Saju, Mallory B Smith, Elizabeth Ainsworth, Jessica M Goldberg, Daniel J Chertow, Mary E Hartman","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003573","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003573","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Parents experience psychologic distress during their child's admission to a PICU, but effective screening for parental mental health symptoms is not the standard of care. We aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile phone-based mental health survey for parents/guardians of PICU patients to facilitate their support by the PICU team.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Post hoc analysis of a single-institution pilot study conducted in 2022. Mental health surveys were delivered by text message to parents/guardians of PICU patients over 1 month, beginning 3 days after their child's PICU admission. In-person interviews 1 month after hospital discharge were used to solicit participants' opinions on the survey platform and content.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>A quaternary U.S. academic medical center.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Parents/guardians of PICU patients.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurement and main results: </strong>Of the 53 participants who consented, 31 (58%) completed the study. Symptoms of acute stress (ASS) were the most common and most severe: 21 participants screened positive for ASS, and 20 of those that screened positive had \"moderate\" or \"severe\" symptoms. Among the 23 participants who screened positive for one mental health condition, 10 met the thresholds for all three. Scoring of the protocol's usability, acceptability, and feasibility showed a System Usability Scale equal to 82 of 100, an Acceptability of Intervention Measure score equal to 4.2 of 5, an Intervention Appropriateness Measure score equal to 4.5 of 5, and Feasibility of Intervention Measure score equal to 4.5 of 5.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>Mobile phone-based screening for parental mental health symptoms is acceptable and may offer the advantage of privacy and flexibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"947-952"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141627299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Razvan Azamfirei, Deanna Behrens, Sofia Padilla, Kate Madden, Sarah Goldberg, Megan Geno, Mary-Jeanne Manning, Michelle Piole, Erik Madsen, Danielle Maue, Samer Abu-Sultaneh, Ronke Awojoodu, Nae-Yuh Wang, Dale M Needham, Karin Neufeld, Sapna R Kudchadkar
{"title":"Delirium Screening in Critically Ill Children: Secondary Analysis of the Multicenter PICU Up! Pilot Trial Dataset, 2019-2020.","authors":"Razvan Azamfirei, Deanna Behrens, Sofia Padilla, Kate Madden, Sarah Goldberg, Megan Geno, Mary-Jeanne Manning, Michelle Piole, Erik Madsen, Danielle Maue, Samer Abu-Sultaneh, Ronke Awojoodu, Nae-Yuh Wang, Dale M Needham, Karin Neufeld, Sapna R Kudchadkar","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003555","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003555","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To determine the patient-level factors associated with performing daily delirium screening in PICUs with established delirium screening practices.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A secondary analysis of 2019-2020 prospective data from the baseline phase of the PICU Up! pilot stepped-wedge multicenter trial (NCT03860168).</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Six PICUs in the United States.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>One thousand sixty-four patients who were admitted to a PICU for 3 or more days.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>Of 1064 patients, 74% (95% CI, 71-76%) underwent delirium screening at least once during their PICU stay. On 57% of the 8965 eligible patient days, screening was conducted. The overall prevalence of delirium was 46% across all screened days, and 64% of screened patients experienced delirium at some point during their PICU stay. Factors associated with greater adjusted odds ratio (aOR) of increased daily delirium screening included PICU stay longer than 15 days compared with 1-3 days (aOR 3.36 [95% CI, 2.62-4.30]), invasive mechanical ventilation as opposed to room air (aOR 1.67 [95% CI, 1.32-2.12]), dexmedetomidine infusions (aOR 1.23 [95% CI, 1.04-1.44]) and propofol infusions (aOR 1.55 [95% CI, 1.08-2.23]). Conversely, decreased aOR of daily delirium screening was associated with female gender (aOR 0.78 [95% CI, 0.63-0.96]), and the administration of continuous infusions of opioids (aOR 0.75 [95% CI, 0.63-0.90]) or ketamine (aOR 0.48 [95% CI, 0.29-0.79]). Neither patient age, the presence of family or physical restraints, or benzodiazepine infusions were associated with daily delirium screening rates.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In the 2019-2020 PICU UP! cohort, across six PICUs, delirium screening occurred on only 57% of days, despite the presence of established practices. Female gender, patients in the early stages of their PICU stay, and patients not receiving mechanical ventilation were associated with lower odds of daily delirium screening. Our results highlight the need for structured quality improvement processes to both standardize and increase the frequency of delirium screening.</p>","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"880-888"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11449648/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141237243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parent Perspectives on Social Risk Screening in the PICU.","authors":"Rebecca A Asp, Erin T Paquette","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003580","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003580","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Health inequities are widespread and associated with avoidable poor health outcomes. In the PICU, we are increasingly understanding how health inequities relate to critical illness and health outcomes. Experts recommend assessing for health inequities by screening for social determinants of health (SDOH) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs); however, guidance on screening is limited and screening has not been universally implemented. Our study aimed to understand parent perspectives on screening for SDOH/ACEs in the PICU, with the primary objective of determining whether screening would be acceptable in this setting.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We conducted a qualitative study using semistructured interviews with a convenience sample of eleven PICU parents between November 2021 and January 2022.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Urban, quaternary free-standing children's hospital.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>Parents of children with a PICU hospitalization between November 2020 and October 2021.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>Domains of interest included experience with and attitudes toward SDOH/ACEs screening, perspectives on addressing needs with/without resources and their relationship to health, and recommendations for screening. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and coded with an inductive approach using thematic analysis and constant comparative methods. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Institutional Review Board approved this study (2021- 4781, Approved September 13, 2021). Ten participants found SDOH/ACEs screening to be acceptable and valuable in the PICU, even for topics without a readily available resource. Participants did not have broad experience with ACEs screening, though all believed this provided the medical team with valuable context regarding their child. Ten participants recommended screening occur after their child has been stabilized and that they are notified that screening is universal.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Participants found screening for SDOH/ACES to be acceptable and valuable in the PICU. Families have important insight that should be leveraged to improve the support of unmet needs through the development of strengths-based, parent-informed screening initiatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"953-958"},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11567077/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141627300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gabriella Bottari, Emanuel Paionni, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Manuel Murciano, Francesco Rosati, Federica Ferrigno, Mara Pisani, Sebastian Cristaldi, Annamaria Musolino, Giorgia Borrelli, Chiara Bochicchio, Lorenza Romani, Maia De Luca, Marilena Agosta, Laura Lancella, Alberto Villani, Annarita Vestri, Marta Ciofi Degli Atti, Carlo F Perno, Ottavia Porzio, Massimiliano Raponi, Corrado Cecchetti
{"title":"Pancreatic Stone Protein in the Diagnosis of Sepsis in Children Admitted to High-Dependency Care: A Single-Center Prospective Cohort Study.","authors":"Gabriella Bottari, Emanuel Paionni, Danilo Alunni Fegatelli, Manuel Murciano, Francesco Rosati, Federica Ferrigno, Mara Pisani, Sebastian Cristaldi, Annamaria Musolino, Giorgia Borrelli, Chiara Bochicchio, Lorenza Romani, Maia De Luca, Marilena Agosta, Laura Lancella, Alberto Villani, Annarita Vestri, Marta Ciofi Degli Atti, Carlo F Perno, Ottavia Porzio, Massimiliano Raponi, Corrado Cecchetti","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003565","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Blood level of pancreatic stone protein (PSP) is a promising biomarker of sepsis both in adults and children. The aim of our study was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of PSP in children with suspected sepsis and to compare diagnostic performance with other sepsis biomarkers approved for clinical use, that is, procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Prospective study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>PICU and pediatric emergency department.</p><p><strong>Intervention: </strong>Blood levels of PSP were measured using a nanofluidic point-of-care immunoassay (abioSCOPE, Abionic SA, Switzerland) within 24 hours of admission.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>We studied 99 children aged between older than 1 month and younger than 18 years with signs and symptoms of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (irrespective of associated organ dysfunction). The prevalence of sepsis was 35 of 99 (35.4%). Patients with sepsis had higher PSP levels ( p < 0.001) than patients with systemic inflammation of noninfectious cause. In this analysis, the optimal cutoff for the diagnosis of sepsis using PSP was 123 ng/mL, which resulted in a sensitivity of 0.63 (95% CI, 0.43-0.80), specificity of 0.89 (95% CI, 0.77-0.95). The PSP test area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) was 0.82 (95% CI, 0.73-0.91) and, by comparison, procalcitonin and CRP AUROC were 0.70 (95% CI, 0.58-0.82) and 0.72 (95% CI, 0.60-0.84), respectively. Overall, the pretest to posttest probability of sepsis with a positive test changed from 0.35 to 0.73.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this single-center prospective pediatric cohort, admitted to the high intensive care and to the PICU, our findings suggested the potential use of PSP as a sepsis biomarker. However, because of the clinical diagnostic uncertainty with a positive result, further investigation is needed particularly in combination with other biomarkers.</p>","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"937-946"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141634118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia A Heneghan, Manzilat Y Akande, Sriram Ramgopal, Michael D Evans, Madhura Hallman, Denise M Goodman
{"title":"New Morbidities During Critical Illness and Associated Risk of ICU Readmission: Virtual Pediatric Systems Cohort, 2017-2020.","authors":"Julia A Heneghan, Manzilat Y Akande, Sriram Ramgopal, Michael D Evans, Madhura Hallman, Denise M Goodman","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003542","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003542","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To describe change in Functional Status Scale (FSS) associated with critical illness and assess associated development of new morbidities with PICU readmission.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Retrospective, cross-sectional cohort study using the Virtual Pediatric Systems (VPS; Los Angeles, CA) database.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>One hundred twenty-six U.S. PICUs participating in VPS.</p><p><strong>Subjects: </strong>Children younger than 21 years old admitted 2017-2020 and followed to December 2022.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>Among 40,654 patients, 86.2% were classified as having good function or mild dysfunction before illness. Most patients did not have a change in their FSS category during hospitalization. Survival with new morbidity occurred most in children with baseline good/mild dysfunction (8.7%). Hospital mortality increased across categories of baseline dysfunction. Of 39,701 survivors, 14.2% were readmitted within 1 year. Median time to readmission was 159 days. In multivariable, mixed-effects Cox modeling, time to readmission was most associated with discharge functional status (hazard ratio [HR], 5.3 [95% CI, 4.6-6.1] for those with very severe dysfunction), and associated with lower hazard in those who survived with new morbidity (HR, 0.7 [95% CI, 0.6-0.7]).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Development of new morbidities occurs commonly in pediatric critical illness, but we failed to find an association with greater hazard of PICU readmission. Instead, patient functional status is associated with hazard of PICU readmission.</p>","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"e405-e409"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11449647/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141080514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preconceived Notions, Inconsistent Implementation, and Missed Opportunities for Quality Care.","authors":"Chani Traube, Bruce M Greenwald","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000003575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":"25 10","pages":"961-963"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer Plant, JoAnne Natale, Satyan Lakshminrusimha
{"title":"About Clinical Full-Time Equivalent in PICUs: Survey of the U.S. Pediatric Critical Care Chiefs Network, 2020-2022.","authors":"Jennifer Plant, JoAnne Natale, Satyan Lakshminrusimha","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000003557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":"25 10","pages":"e420-e421"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accounting for \"Hidden Costs\": Provider Workload as a Balancing Metric in Evaluating Procedural Innovations.","authors":"Elorm F Avakame, Donald L Boyer","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003561","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":"25 10","pages":"970-972"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pulse Oximetry Bias and Skin Tone, What We Know, What We Need to Do About It.","authors":"Andrew C Argent","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003600","DOIUrl":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003600","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":"25 10","pages":"967-969"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas A Ettinger, Steven Loscalzo, Hongyan Liu, Heather Griffis, Elizabeth Mack, Michael S D Agus
{"title":"The authors reply.","authors":"Nicholas A Ettinger, Steven Loscalzo, Hongyan Liu, Heather Griffis, Elizabeth Mack, Michael S D Agus","doi":"10.1097/PCC.0000000000003588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000003588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19760,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Critical Care Medicine","volume":"25 10","pages":"e422-e423"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142366096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}