Abstract
The practice of paediatric critical care has matured dramatically in the course of the past three decades. Knowledge of the pathophysiology of life-threatening processes and the technological capacity to monitor and treat paediatric patients suffering from them has advanced rapidly during this period. Along with the scientific and technical advances has come the evolution of the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), in which special needs of critically ill or injured children and their families can be met by paediatric specialists. All critically ill infants and children cared for in hospitals, regardless of the physical setting, are entitled to receive the same quality of care [1].
The SISPe (Italian Paediatric Sepsis Study) group: P Vitale, A Conio (Regina Margherita Hospital, Turin); G Ottonello, A Arena (Gaslini Hospital, Genoa); C Gallini, R Gilodi (Sant’Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo Hospital, Alessandria); R Osello, F Ferrero (Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Novara); E Zoia, A Mandelli (V Buzzi Children’s Hospital, Milan); L Napolitano, S Leoncino (Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Mangiagalli Regina Elena Foundation, Milan); E Galassini (Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan); D Codazzi (Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo); A Baraldi, S Molinaro (Spedali Civili, Brescia); P Santuz (Borgo Trento Hospital, Verona); P Cogo, A Pettenazzo (Ospedale Civile Paediatric ICU, Padua); L Meneghini, F Giusti (Ospedale Civile — Anaesthesia, Padua); A Sarti (Burlo Hospital, Trieste); E Iannella, S Baroncini (Sant’Orsola Malpighi Hospital, Bologna); M Calamandrei, A Messeri (Meyer Hospital, Florence); M Marano, C Tomasello (Bambin Gesù Hospital — DEA, Rome); A Onofri, M Ferrari (Bambin Gesù Hospital — Anaesthesia, Rome); M Piastra, E Caresta (Gemelli Hospital, Rome); A Dolcini (Santo Bono Hospital, Naples); C Rovella, AM Guddo (GA Di Cristina Hospital, Palermo); M Astuto, N Disma (Policlinico Hospital, Catania); D Salvo, D Buono (San Vincenzo Hospital, Taormina)
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Salvo, I., Wolfler, A., Mandelli, A. (2007). Severity scores in paediatric intensive care units. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0571-6_38
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