Population
135 consecutive critically ill and injured pediatric patients admitted to a 12-bed pediatric intensive care…
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Cohort
Follow-up
ICU stay
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May aid real-time severity assessment in pediatric ICU; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Decreased heart rate variability (decomplexification) significantly correlates with greater severity of illness and worse outcomes in critically ill pediatric patients.
Goldstein et al. (1998) studied this question.
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