Table 1.
Admissions of adolescents to intensive care units 2007–2014.
| Age | Age 12–15 | Age 16–19 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of unit | PICU | AICU | PICU | AICU | |
| Total number of admissions (number of those admissions later transferred to PICU) | 15,423 | 2137 (501) | 3459 | 16,301 (129) | |
| Admission type n (% of admissions) | Elective surgery | 6413 (41.6) | 241 (14.7) | 1857 (53.7) | 1358 (8.4) |
| Emergency surgery | 923 (6.0) | 247 (15.1) | 182 (5.3) | 2389 (14.8) | |
| Non-surgery | 8059 (52.3) | 1148 (70.2) | 1412 (40.8) | 12,425 (76.8) | |
| Not known | 28 (0.2) | 0 | 8 (0.2) | 0 | |
| Death before ICU discharge (n) | 547 | 78 | 119 | 845 | |
| Mortality (%) | 3.5 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 5.2 | |
AICU: adult intensive care unit; PICU: paediatric intensive care unit.
All data for AICU exclude those adolescents transferred to PICU on discharge from AICU except total number of admissions.