RESUMEN
Physiological stability index (PSI) is a score proposed to evaluate the severity of different diseases in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) by giving scores to the deterioration of 34 measurable physiological variables. In order to validate PSI, it was prospectively applied to 132 patients who entered our PICU. A significant difference (p less than 0.001) was found between the average score of those patients who survived (means: 6.1) versus those who did not (means: 21); No difference was found between theoretical mortality rates obtained by logistic regression analysis and those obtained according to PSI score ranks even thought direct hemodynamic measurements like cardiac output and capillary (wedge) pulmonary pressure were not considered in this study. In conclusion, the PSI is a useful method to measure the severity of illness in pediatric intensive care and to compare results among PICU.
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Cuidados Críticos , Unidades de Cuidado Intensivo Pediátrico , Índice de Severidad de la Enfermedad , Adolescente , Niño , Preescolar , Chile , Femenino , Humanos , Lactante , Masculino , Mortalidad , Pronóstico , Estudios Prospectivos , Análisis de Regresión , Factores de RiesgoRESUMEN
Se presenta un caso clinico de drenaje venoso pulmonar anomalo derecho a la vena cava inferior (Sidrome de la Cimitarra).El cuadro clinico se caracterizo por ausencia de sintomas los primeros cinco dias de vida comenzando luego con polipnea, discreta retraccion y requerimientos de oxigeno variable. El diagnostico inicial fue de atelectasia de lobulo superior derecho, sin embargo la evolucion radiologica descarto esta posibilidad. Se envio al Hospital Calvo Mackenna para completar su estudio efectuandose un cateterismo cardiaco que confirmo el diagnostico de Sindrome de la Cimitarra