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Intensive Care

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Injury or illness is defined as critical when one or more organ systems are either in danger of failing or have begun to fail. In this situation, the possibility of incomplete recovery or death exists. Critical care comprises the monitoring, support, treatment, and interventions for the organ systems in failure. Pediatric critical care not only encompasses bedside management of children’s severe, potentially life-threatening medical or surgical illness but also extends to providing support to the child’s family or caregivers. The challenge lies in the complex balance of providing support of single or multiple organ systems in failure while at the same time minimizing adverse consequences of treatment. Critical care provision in the developing world faces multiple challenges inherent to a resource-limited setting. Nonetheless, it is possible to provide context-appropriate measures that greatly enhance the provision of healthcare and reduce morbidity and mortality.

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  1. AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya

    Immaculate W. K. Barasa

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, & Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA

    Erik N. Hansen

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  1. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Hospital, Abuja, Nigeria

    Emmanuel A. Ameh

  2. Professor of Surgery & Pediatrics, Rady Children’s Hospital, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

    Stephen W. Bickler

  3. Department of Pediatric Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Kokila Lakhoo

  4. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Ohio State University, Colombus, OH, USA

    Benedict C. Nwomeh

  5. Department of Pediatric Surgery, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada

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Barasa, I.W.K., Hansen, E.N. (2020). Intensive Care. In: Ameh, E.A., Bickler, S.W., Lakhoo, K., Nwomeh, B.C., Poenaru, D. (eds) Pediatric Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41724-6_12

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