Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Improved survival of children with sepsis and purpura: effects of age, gender, and era. | Available online http content 11 5 R112 Research Improved survival of children with sepsis and purpura effects of age gender and era Martine Maat1 Corinne MP Buysse2 Marieke Emonts1 Lodewijk Spanjaard3 Koen FM Joosten2 Ronald de Groot4 and Jan A Hazelzet2 Open Access 1 Department of Paediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology Erasmus MC-Sophia Children s Hospital University Medical Center Dr. Molewaterplein 60 3015 GJ Rotterdam The Netherlands 2Department of Paediatrics Division of Paediatric Intensive Care Erasmus MC-Sophia Children s Hospital University Medical Center Dr. Molewaterplein 60 3015 GJ Rotterdam The Netherlands Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis Department of Medical Microbiology Academic Medical Center Amsterdam Meibergdreef 15 1100 DD Amsterdam The Netherlands 4Department of Paediatrics University Medical Center St. Radboud Geert Grooteplein 10 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands Corresponding author Jan A Hazelzet Received 18 Jun 2007 Revisions requested 18 Jul 2007 Published 18 Oct 2007 Critical Care 2007 11 R112 doi cc6161 This article is online at http content 11 5 R112 2007 Maat et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background To gain insight into factors that might affect results of future case-control studies we performed an analysis of children with sepsis and purpura admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit PICU of Erasmus MC-Sophia Children s Hospital Rotterdam The Netherlands . Methods Between 1988 and 2006 all 287 children consecutively admitted with sepsis and purpura were included in various sepsis studies. Data regarding age gender ethnicity serogroup of Neisseria .
