{"id":6790,"date":"2020-05-12T16:50:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6790"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:51:09","slug":"characteristics-and-outcomes-of-children-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-infection-admitted-to-us-and-canadian-pediatric-intensive-care-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/characteristics-and-outcomes-of-children-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-infection-admitted-to-us-and-canadian-pediatric-intensive-care-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"41\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shekerdemian<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">conducted a descriptive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0study among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">children\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0COVID-19 admitted to 46 PICUs\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0North America between mid-March and early April, 2020 (N=48<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). They found mean age was 13, 83% had significant pre-existing comorbidities, 38% required invasive ventilation,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">23% had failure of 2 or more organ systems<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. While 4% had died at the time the study concluded, 15 patients (31%) remained hospitalized<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and three\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(6%) remained on ventilator support.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Targeted treatments were used in 61% of patients, with hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination, being most commonly used.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The median PICU and hospital length<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of stay for those who were discharged was 5 and 7 days, respectively.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Shekerdemian<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (May 11, 2020). Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units. JAMA Pediatrics<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapediatrics.2020.1948\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamapediatrics.2020.1948<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shekerdemian\u00a0et al.\u00a0conducted a descriptive\u00a0study among\u00a0children\u00a0with\u00a0COVID-19 admitted to 46 PICUs\u00a0in\u00a0North America between mid-March and early April, 2020 (N=48). They found mean age was 13, 83% had significant pre-existing comorbidities, 38% required invasive ventilation,\u00a0and\u00a023% had failure of 2 or more organ systems. While 4% had died at the time the study concluded, 15 patients (31%) remained hospitalized\u00a0and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/characteristics-and-outcomes-of-children-with-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-infection-admitted-to-us-and-canadian-pediatric-intensive-care-units\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-6790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6790\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6790"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}