Flexible bronchoscopy as a valuable diagnostic and therapeutic tool in pediatric intensive care patients: A report on 5 years of experience

Flexible bronchoscopy as a valuable diagnostic and therapeutic tool in pediatric intensive care patients: A report on 5 years of experience

Objective To evaluate the clinical role of flexible bronchoscopy (FB) in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units (ICUs). Design A retrospective review of all patients receiving FB procedures between January 2005 and December 2009. Setting Pediatric and neonatal ICUs of a tertiary care multi‐disc...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Pediatric pulmonology 2011-10, Vol.46 (10), p.1031-1037
Hauptverfasser: Peng, Yu-Yun, Soong, Wen-Jue, Lee, Yu-Sheng, Tsao, Pei-Chen, Yang, Chia-Feng, Jeng, Mei-Jy
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
Biological and medical sciences
Bronchoscopes
Bronchoscopy
Child
Child, Preschool
Critical Care - methods
Equipment Design
Female
flexible endoscopy
General aspects
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
intensive care
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric
interventional bronchoscopy
Male
Medical sciences
Pneumology
Retrospective Studies
Time Factors
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:Objective To evaluate the clinical role of flexible bronchoscopy (FB) in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units (ICUs). Design A retrospective review of all patients receiving FB procedures between January 2005 and December 2009. Setting Pediatric and neonatal ICUs of a tertiary care multi‐disciplinary teaching hospital located in northern Taiwan. Patients A total of 358 ICU patients (223 males) who received 725 FB procedures. Measurements and Main Results The medical records were reviewed and analyzed. Mean age for the first time FB was 35.7 (±48.9 SD) months old and 68.2% of them were
ISSN:8755-6863
1099-0496
DOI:10.1002/ppul.21464