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Critical Care Pediatrics

 Importance of Early Recognition of System Failure

Outcomes in pediatric cardiopulmonary arrest are generally sepsis poorer than in adults.

Projected Impending Existing Failure

· Respiratory Failure

· Circulatory Failure

· CNS Failure

· Organ Failure

Respiratory Failure

Inadequate oxygenation and CO2 excretion

Respiratory distress is not always present

Causes of Airway Obstruction

· Congenital Lesions

· Acquired Lesions

· Infections

Causes of Acquired Airway Obstruction

· Neurologic Dysfunction - loss of pharyngeal tone

· Trauma

· Foreign Body Aspiration

· Mass Lesion

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· Positioning

· Bag-Valve-Mask

· Intubation

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· Bronchiolitis

· Asthma

· Pneumonia

· Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

· Aspiration/Near Drowning

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· The chest wall is much more compliant in infants

· Paradoxical respirations or thoracoabdominal asynchrony occurs when airway resistance becomes increased

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· Chest trauma is most commonly cause is by a blunt mechanism, such as a motor vehicle accident.

· Chest trauma is usually associated with other injuries.

· Chest trauma isore likely to injure both intrathoracic and abdominal organs.

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