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Chapter 2

Table 1. PICU characteristics of the first (n = 156) and point prevalence part (n = 41) of the survey No. of PICUs (%) Characteristic Part 1: Survey (n = 156)

Part 2: Point prevalence (n = 41)

Continent Asia

37 (24) 5 (3.2) 48 (31) 33 (21) 9 (5.8) 24 (15) 1 (0.6) 20 (13) 49 (31) 86 (55) 31 (20) 51 (33) 20 (13) 48 (31) 135 (86) 6 (4.0) 8 (5.1) 9 (5.8) 25 (16) 3 (2.0) 119 (76) 76 (49) 51 (33) 23 (15) 6 (3.5)

9 (22) 2 (4.9) 16 (39) 3 (7.3) 2 (4.9) 9 (22) 0 (0.0) 2 (4.9) 15 (37) 24 (59) 7 (17) 15 (35) 4 (9.8) 14 (33) 35 (85) 2 (4.9) 2 (4.9) 1 (2.4) 8 (20) 0 (0.0) 32 (78) 20 (49) 13 (32) 7 (17) 1 (2.4)

Africa Europe North America Oceania South America

Income category (country) Low

Lower middle Upper middle High

Hospital type

General hospital University hospital Children’s hospital University children’s hospital

Type of PICU

Multidisciplinary/mixed Cardiac Medical

Combination of PICU With adult ICU

With Neonatal ICU With adult and neonatal ICU Not combined

Size of PICU

1-10 beds 11-20 beds 21-30 beds >30 beds

Admissions (patients/yr)

Median (interquartile range)

500 (296-793)

450 (350-700)

Ventilated patients < 25%

22 (14) 55 (35) 49 (31) 30 (19)

5 (12) 13 (32) 14 (33) 10 (23)

25-50% 50-75% >75%

PICU and patient demographics The responding PICUs in the first part of the survey represented approximately 90,000 admissions per year. Fifty-two percent of PICUs were located in North America and Europe. Fourteen percent of PICUs were situated in low- or lower-middle-income countries, and 86% of PICUs were multidisciplinary. All PICU demographics are shown in Table 1.

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