Abstract

Anzeen Nazir Kanth, Aymen Masood Khan, Dr. Suhail Masood Khan*, Azhar Ajaz Khan and
Owais Ahmed Wani

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Paediatric intensive care has become more crucial in the treatment of severely sick children who require advanced airway, respiratory, and hemodynamic support in order to improve their chances of survival. Materials and Methods: Over the course of a year, from March to December 2020, retrospective research was conducted on children aged more than 28 days to 12 years who were admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary care teaching hospital in North India. All admissions records were scrutinised. In Microsoft Excel, the results are tallied. Results: 360 (74.34 percent) of the 481 youngsters admitted survived. There were 309 men (64.24 percent) and 172 women (35.76 percent). The age group > 28 days to 12 months had the highest number of patients hospitalised (n=170, 35.34 percent >), as well as the highest mortality rate (n=51,43.59 percent >). The death rate for children under the age of five was 83 percent (64.51 percent >). (Including 43.59 percent of infant mortality and excluding neonates). 63 (46.32 percent) of the 136 (37.78 percent) patients who required mechanical ventilation were successfully recovered. The central nervous system (n=128, 26.61 percent >), respiratory (n=112, 23.28 percent >), and gastrointestinal (n=63, 13.1 percent >) were the three most prevalent illness categories requiring hospitalisation. Conclusions: In order to estimate the overall outcomes of critically sick children in India, further research is needed. The results of an epidemiologic analysis of these patients may help to re-allocate resources and enhance the outcome.