The mortality rate in pediatric septic shock is lower than has previously been reported. Otherwise healthy children have good outcomes when they develop sepsis with septic shock. Oncologic illness ...

Objectives: To determine the current mortality rates for pediatric patients with septic shock and the frequency and outcome of associated multiple organ system failure. Design: Retrospective chart ...

Neonatal septic shock from peritonitis is often fatal. To evaluate the efficacy of steroids in its resuscitation, anesthetized, neonatal pigs were subjected to fecal- E.coli peritonitis-induced ...

The FDA has opened up the use of Johnson & Johnson’s miniaturized heart pumps to certain pediatric patients, including those ...