الفهرس 
SEPSIS IN CRITICALLY ILL CHILDRENOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Sepsis is considered one of the major causes of pediatric mortality in pediatric ICU, a fact that pinpointed the light on the importance of resolving the challenges in diagnosis and estimation of prognosis for septic patients.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in estimating prognosis of critically ill patients with sepsis and septic shock in an attempt for early intervention to improve the outcome.
Our study included thirty critically ill patients fulfilling the criteria of sepsis admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children Hospital, Ain Shams University over a period of 5 months, from july 2007 to December 2007. The mean age for the study population was 46.07 + 57.93 months. Twelve of them (40%) were males and eighteen patients (60%) were females.
Patients were classified into two groups:
Group I: Patients having sepsis (n= 26) with mean age 38.23 ±44.4 months, 14 of them were females and 12 were males.
Group II: Patients having septic shock (n=4) defined as sepsis plus hypotension; blood pressure <2SD below the normal for their age and sex despite fluid resuscitation, their mean age was 97 + 109.7 months, all of them were females.