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Table 1 Patient demographics

From: Continuous intra-gastral monitoring of intra-abdominal pressure in critically ill children: a validation study

Parameter

Number (%) or median (range)

Enrolled patients

97 (100%)

Female

38 (39%)

Age (years)

1.3 (0.0–17.0)

Age category

 

Neonates

12 (12%)

Infants

29 (29%)

Toddlers

26 (27%)

School children

16 (17%)

Adolescents

14 (14%)

BMI (kg/m2)

15.6 (8.9–33.0)

Length of stay at PICU (days)

8 (1–332)

Admission diagnoses

 

Cardiac and post-cardiac surgery

46 (47%)

Paediatric surgical

26 (27%)

Neurosurgical

9 (9%)

Traumatological

8 (8%)

Non-surgical (internal)

 

Pulmonology

3 (3%)

Oncologic

3 (3%)

Infectious (sepsis)

2 (2%)

PRISM-III-score (first day of enrolment)

13.0 (0.0 – 35.0)

Prevalence of IAH overall

38 (39%)

 IAH grade I (10–12 mmHg)

27 (28%)

 IAH grade II (13–15 mmHg)

9 (9%)

 IAH grade III (≥ 16 mmHg)

2 (2%)

Prevalence of ACS

4 (4%)

Mortality

8 (8%)

  1. BMI body mass index, PICU paediatric intensive care unit, PRISM-III-score paediatric risk of mortality score III [12], IAH intra-abdominal hypertension, ACS abdominal compartment syndrome