Patient population: children from 4 months to 12 years of age admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit in Belgium
Unfavorable criteria seen in nonsurvivors:
(1) coma stage II or worse (nonrousable child without spontaneous eye movements)
(2) shock (systolic blood pressure < 60 mm Hg)
(3) low or normal initial total blood leukocyte count (<= 10,000 per µL), or low total polymorphonuclear count (<= 2,000 per µL)
(4) thrombocytopenia (platelet count <= 150,000 per µL) and DIC
(5) metabolic acidosis (bicarbonate <= 15 mEq/L and/or pH <= 7.30)
Interpretation
|
Number of Unfavorable Criteria
|
Percent Survival
|
|
0
|
100%
|
|
1
|
86%
|
|
2
|
66%
|
|
3
|
21%
|
|
4
|
0%
|
|
5
|
0%
|
(extracted from Figure 1, page 682, and text page 681, Kahn and Blum, 1978)
