Admission source and mortality in a pediatric intensive care unit

Aim: to examine associations between mortality,length of stay,and the sources of admission to tertiary pediatric intensive care. methods: this retrospective study was carried out a tertiary in children hospital & ich,multan. all admissions between january 2011 and december 2013. we compared length of stay and mortality rate between the different sources of picu admission. results: among 1573 consecutive patients admitted in the above time period,980(63%) were boys and 593 (37%) were girls. out of the total cases 1240 (78.8%) were medical cases and 333(21.2%) were surgical cases. further distribution of admission was that the patients were admitted from medical emergency (60%),surgical emergency (10%),medical ward (18.6%),surgical ward (1.16%) and from operation theatre (10%). the total admissions from emergency were 70%,from the ward were 20% and from operation theatre 10%. conclusions: outcomes of tertiary pediatric intensive care vary significantly by source of admission with patients originating from the same hospital's clinical wards being at greater risk.