Respiratory and heart problems are the top reasons children are admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the U.S. (Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime) What is the PICU?

UW Health Kids said there are plans to build 24 pediatric and cardiac intensive beds, with 14 rooms for medical surgical PICU ...

Setting: The VPS database (VPS, LLC, Los Angeles, CA), a national multicenter clinical PICU database. Patients: All patients with discharge dates between September 2009 and March 2012 and valid ...