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WHY IS "EARLY CHILDHOOD INTENSIVE CARE" (TIPI) AN ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEONATOLOGY (SIN) STUDY GROUP?
Abstract
Background
Several studies have shown that critically ill children hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) receive higher quality of care, have better outcomes and a lower mortality rate compared to those admitted to adult intensive care units.
Objectives
To explain why “Early Childhood Intensive Care” (TIPI) is an Italian Association of Neonatology (SIN) study group.
Methods
Review of 2014 data from the Italian Pediatric Intensive Care Units Network (TIPNet) and of a recent survey on "Enlarged Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)" sent to all members of the Italian Association of Neonatology (SIN).
Results
From the TIPNet Network data it emerges that in Italy there are only 23 PICUs in which children with a mean age of 45.4 ± 54.5 months are hospitalized, 55% of whom are affected by medical conditions (about 50% by acute respiratory problems).According to the survey on "Enlarged NICUs", it emerges that in 66% of 92 NICUs that replayed to the questionnaires, children older than one month of life are currently hospitalized (78% for respiratory diseases).
Conclusion
The new idea of care is to offer, in general hospitals, enlarged NICUs extended to infants and children based on territorial and/or population macro-areas. Therefore, we believe that the management of the critically ill child is certainly an expertise area of the neonatologist who however must acquire specific skills of pediatric intensive medicine. In this context, SIN's TIPI Study Group wants to promote the knowledge of critically ill infants and the subsequent training of all the involved neonatologists.