MORBIDITY PROFILE AND SURVIVAL OF CRITICALLY ILL CHILDREN IN A TERTIARY PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

PATIENTS AND METHODS A retrospective single-center, observational study, which included all consecutive children and neonates who were treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Pediatric Clinic University Clinical Center Tuzla (capacity 22 beds, level III) over a period of ten years (January 1, 2013-December 31, 2022). The data source for this research was the Pediatric Clinic Admission Protocol and the Intensive Care Unit Protocol and the medical records of children treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the Pediatric Clinic University Clinical Center Tuzla. Clinical and demographic data were obtained from medical records and an electronic database of patients treated in the ICU, which included gender, age, morbidity analysis, diagnoses, length of ICU stay, and outcome. Clinical characteristics such as vital parameters, pulse, respirations, systolic blood pressure, body temperature, pupillary light reflex, oxygen saturation, diuresis and need for mechanical ventilation (MV) were assessed and documented within the first hour of admission and documented in the medical records in within the framework of patient monitoring, and at the same time were the basis for electronic registration and calculation of the scoring system for critically ill children (SNEP-PE II, CRIB II; PRISM IV, PIM III, PELODS II).