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Mortality and morbidity in community-acquired sepsis in European pediatric intensive care units: a prospective cohort study from the European Childhood Life-threatening Infectious Disease Study (EUCLIDS).


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Sepsis is one of the main reasons for non-elective admission to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), but little is known about determinants influencing outcome. We characterized children admitted with community-acquired sepsis to European PICUs and studied risk factors for mortality and disability. METHODS:Data were collected within the collaborative Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)-funded EUCLIDS study, which is a prospective multicenter cohort study aiming to evaluate genetic determinants of susceptibility and/or severity in sepsis. This report includes 795 children admitted with community-acquired sepsis to 52 PICUs from seven European countries between July 2012 and January 2016. The primary outcome measure was in-hospital death. Secondary outcome measures were PICU-free days censured at day 28, hospital length of stay, and disability. Independent predictors were identified by multivariate regression analysis. RESULTS:Patients most commonly presented clinically with sepsis without a source (n?=?278, 35%), meningitis/encephalitis (n?=?182, 23%), or pneumonia (n?=?149, 19%). Of 428 (54%) patients with confirmed bacterial infection, Neisseria meningitidis (n?=?131, 31%) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (n?=?78, 18%) were the main pathogens. Mortality was 6% (51/795), increasing to 10% in the presence of septic shock (45/466). Of the survivors, 31% were discharged with disability, including 24% of previously healthy children who survived with disability. Mortality and disability were independently associated with S. pneumoniae infections (mortality OR 4.1, 95% CI 1.1-16.0, P?=?0.04; disability OR 5.4, 95% CI 1.8-15.8, P?

SUBMITTER: Boeddha NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984383 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<h4>Background</h4>Sepsis is one of the main reasons for non-elective admission to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs), but little is known about determinants influencing outcome. We characterized children admitted with community-acquired sepsis to European PICUs and studied risk factors for mortality and disability.<h4>Methods</h4>Data were collected within the collaborative Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)-funded EUCLIDS study, which is a prospective multicenter cohort study aiming to eval  ...[more]

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