Validation of the Shock Index, Modified Shock Index, and Shock Index-Paediatric age-Adjusted (SIPA) for predicting length of stay and outcome in children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit

• Main Authors: Monish Nazar (Author), Hemanth Kumar (Author), Madhunandan Krishnegowda (Author), Praveen Unki (Author), Nandakumar Veerappa (Author), Bharath Kumar Srinivas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Maintaining hemodynamic stability requires constant complex interaction between multiple vascular and extravascular factors. There are varieties of parameters that determine the same and few of them are used to predict the hemodynamic instability at earliest. Shock Index (SI), Mo...