{"id":8124,"date":"2020-07-13T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:33:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:33:04","slug":"intensive-care-admissions-of-children-with-paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-temporally-associated-with-sars-cov-2-pims-ts-in-the-uk-a-multicentre-observational-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/intensive-care-admissions-of-children-with-paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-temporally-associated-with-sars-cov-2-pims-ts-in-the-uk-a-multicentre-observational-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Intensive Care Admissions of Children with\u00a0Paediatric\u00a0Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in the UK: A\u00a0Multicentre\u00a0Observational Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Davies et al. conducted a multi-center study of children admitted to PICUs in the UK who met\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">case definition of pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) (n=78). Historical data on admissions for similar conditions found a mean of 1 admission per week, as compared to a mean of 14 cases per week during the study period, with a peak value of 32 admissions in one week.\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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The median age of patients was 11 years (IQR 8-14), and patients who were male (67%) or members of ethnic minorities (78%) were over-represented relative to their proportions in the general population. Fever, shock, and gastrointestinal symptoms were the most common presenting features. Forty-six percent were invasively ventilated, 36% had evidence of coronary artery abnormalities, 3 (4%) needed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and 2 children (3%) died.\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\">Davies et al. (July 2020). Intensive Care Admissions of Children with\u00a0Paediatric\u00a0Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) in the UK: A\u00a0Multicentre\u00a0Observational Study. The Lancet. Child &amp; Adolescent Health.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(20)30215-7\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2352-4642(20)30215-7<\/span><\/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>Davies et al. conducted a multi-center study of children admitted to PICUs in the UK who met\u00a0the\u00a0case definition of pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) (n=78). Historical data on admissions for similar conditions found a mean of 1 admission per week, as compared to a mean of 14 cases per week during&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/intensive-care-admissions-of-children-with-paediatric-inflammatory-multisystem-syndrome-temporally-associated-with-sars-cov-2-pims-ts-in-the-uk-a-multicentre-observational-study\/\">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-8124","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\/8124","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=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8125,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}