Talya Wittmann Dayagi, Ronit Nirel, Galia Avrahami, Shira Amar, Sarah Elitzur, Salvador Fisher, Gil Gilead, Oded Gilad, Tracie Goldberg, Shai Izraeli, Gili Kadmon, Eytan Kaplan, Aviva Krauss, Orli Michaeli, Jerry Stein, Orna Steinberg-Shemer, Hannah Tamary, Osnat Tausky, Helen Toledano, Avichai Weissbach, Joanne Yacobovich, Asaf D Yanir, Jessica Zon, Elhanan Nahum, Shlomit Barzilai-Birenboim
Background: Children with hemato-oncological diseases or following stem cell transplantation (SCT) are at high risk for life-threatening infections; sepsis in this population constitutes a substantial proportion of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions. The current pediatric prognostic scoring tools to evaluate illness severity and mortality risk are designed for the general pediatric population and may not be adequate for this vulnerable subpopulation. Methods: Retrospective analysis was performed on all PICU admissions for sepsis in children with hemato-oncological diseases or post-SCT, in a single tertiary pediatric hospital between 2008 and 2021 ( n = 233)...
November 19, 2023: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine