P Ruiz Magro, C Aparicio López, J López-Herce Cid, M Martínez Campos, L Sancho Pérez
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to analyze the incidence of metabolic disturbances in critically ill children and to evaluate their correlation with severity of illness, complications, mortality and length of hospital stay. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively studied 360 children who were admitted into a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) between January 1995 and May 1996. We analyzed age, sex, initial diagnosis, complications, length of hospital stay and initial and final concentrations of serum glucose, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and alkaline phosphatase...
August 1999: Anales Españoles de Pediatría