Provides updated guidelines for the organizational structure, facilities, personnel, and quality monitoring of pediatric intensive care units.
Should guide PICU organization and quality monitoring now; extends prior guidelines with updated standards for clinicians and researchers.
The practice of pediatric critical care medicine has matured dramatically during the past decade. These guidelines are presented to update the existing guidelines published in 1993. Pediatric critical care services are provided in level I and level II units. Within these guidelines, the scope of pediatric critical care services is discussed, including organizational and administrative structure, hospital facilities and services, personnel, drugs and equipment, quality monitoring, and training and continuing education.
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