No resuscitation orders and withdrawal of therapy in French paediatric intensive care units. Groupe Francophone de Reanimation et d’Urgences Pediatriques
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serval:BIB_4D6701B0915A
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Title
No resuscitation orders and withdrawal of therapy in French paediatric intensive care units. Groupe Francophone de Reanimation et d’Urgences Pediatriques
Journal
Acta Paediatr
Publication state
Published
Issued date
07/1998
Volume
87
Number
7
Pages
769-73
Language
english
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of different modes of death in French paediatric intensive care units and to compare patients’ characteristics, including a severity of illness score (Paediatric Risk of Mortality: PRISM score) and prior health status (Paediatric Overall Performance Category scale), according to the mode of death. DESIGN: A 4-month prospective cohort study. SETTING: Nine French multidisciplinary paediatric intensive care units. PATIENTS: All patients who died in PICUs, except premature babies. MAIN RESULTS: Among 712 admissions, 13% patients died. Brain death was declared in 20%, failure of cardiopulmonary resuscitation occurred in 26%, do-not-resuscitate status was identified in 27%, and withdrawal of supportive therapy was noted in 27%. The PRISM score and the baseline Paediatric Overall Performance Category were not different between the four groups. Brain-dead patients were older than those in whom a do-not-resuscitate order and withdrawal of therapy were made (median age 81 vs 7 and 4 months). CONCLUSIONS: Decisions to limit or to withdraw supportive care were made for a majority of patients dying in French paediatric intensive care units. Chronic health evaluation and severity of illness index are not sufficient to describe dead-patient populations.
Keywords
*Hospital Mortality, *Resuscitation Orders, Brain Death, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Child, Child, Preschool, Critical Care, Death and Euthanasia, Empirical Approach, France/epidemiology, Health Status Indicators, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric/standards/*statistics & numerical data, Life Support Care, Medical Futility, Prospective Studies, Risk Adjustment, Severity of Illness Index
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