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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2014 Oct;15(8):698–705. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000193

TABLE 2.

Acute primary PICU admission diagnoses for the patients.

Diagnosis Number Percent
Postoperative orthopedic surgery 14 15.2%
Sepsis/meningitis/pneumonia 12 13.0%
DKA, other metabolic disease 12 13.0%
Postoperative neurosurgery 11 12.0%
Trauma 10 10.9%
Postoperative CHD surgery 7 7.6%
Seizures, other neurological 3 3.3%
Acquired cardiovascular disease 3 3.3%
Renal failure 2 2.2%
Cancer 2 2.2%
Hypox-ischemic-reperfusion 2 2.2%
Hematologic disease 2 2.2%
Acute abdomen 2 2.2%
Hepatic failure 2 2.2%
Other diagnoses 8 8.7%
Total 92 100.0%