Pediatrics specialties
Conditions treated in the PICU
Neuromuscular
- Seizures and Status Epilepticus
- Brain swelling (Cerebral Edema) due to accidental head trauma, Shaken Baby Syndrome, hypoxic-ischemic injury and metabolic disorders
- Meningitis and encephalitis
- Intracranial bleeding due to trauma and blood coagulation disorders
- Stroke due to vascular disorders or Sickle Cell Disease
- Neuromuscular weakness due to Myasthenia Gravis or Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Complications of muscular dystrophy
- Postoperative period following tumor resection, ventricular fluid shunt insertion, craniosynostosis repair or spinal fusion
Respiratory
- Epiglottitis and croup
- Tracheobronchitis and bronchiolitis
- Status asthmaticus
- Bacterial and viral pneumonia
- Sickle cell acute chest
- Aspiration pneumonia and near drowning
- Smoke inhalation injury
- Acute and chronic respiratory failure
- Adult respiratory distress syndrome
- Pleural effusion and empyema
- Postoperative period following tracheostomy or other ear, nose and throat surgery
- Postoperative respiratory dysfunction
Cardiovascular
- Cardiogenic, hypovolemic, septic, traumatic or postoperative shock
- Cardiorespiratory arrest
- Left heart failure and pulmonary edema
- Myocarditis and cardiomyopathy
- Malignant hypertension
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Cardiac arrhythmias
- Postoperative cardiovascular dysfunction
- Postoperative period following cardiac surgery
Gastrointestinal
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Acute hepatic failure and coma
- Acute pancreatitis
- Pseudomembranous colitis (clostridium difficile)
- Typhlitis in Oncology Patients
- Infectious colitis, enteritis, gastroenteritis (septic)
- Intussusception and volvulus
- Gastrointestinal bleeding
- Postoperative period following gastrointestinal surgery or liver transplantation
Fluid, electrolyte and renal
- Critical abnormalities of serum sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium
- Metabolic acidosis or alkalosis
- Volume depletion (dehydration without shock)
- Fluid overload
- Acute renal failure and tubular necrosis
- Postoperative period following kidney transplantation or major urologic surgery
Hematology and oncology
- Sickle cell crisis
- Acute posthemorrhagic anemia
- Significant thrombocytopenia
- Defibrination syndrome or disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Induction period of chemotherapy for malignant disease
- Critical illness following chemotherapy, radiation therapy or bone marrow transplantation
Endocrine and metabolism
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Diabetic hyperosmolarity, nonketotic
- Diabetes insipidus and the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion
- Nutritional marasmus
- Critical illness related to congenital metabolic disorders
Infectious disease
- Toxic shock syndrome due to staphylococcal or streptococcal infection
- Septic shock due to meningococcus, pneumococcus and other bacteria
- Botulism
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Systemic candidiasis
Poisoning and environmental injuries
- Accidental or deliberate overdose with salicylates, acetaminophen, antidepressants and other medications
- Accidental or deliberate ingestion of non-medicinal poisons
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Envenomation by a poisonous snake or spider
- Accidental hypothermia
- Environmental and malignant hyperthermia
- Lightning and other electrical injuries
Traumatic injuries
- Resuscitation and stabilization period following major trauma
