Paediatric sequential organ failure assessment score (pSOFA): a plea for the world-wide collaboration for consensus

Tatsuya Kawasaki¹, Nobuaki Shime², Lahn Straney³, Rinaldo Bellomo^{4

5}, Graeme MacLaren^{6

7}, David Pilcher^{8

9

10}, Luregn J Schlapbach^{11

12

13}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan. tatsuya-kawasaki@i.shizuoka-pho.jp.
² Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Intensive Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (CORE), ANZICS House, Levers Terrace, Carlton South, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Intensive Care, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia.
¹¹ Paediatric Critical Care Research Group, Mater Research Institute and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
¹² Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Comment

Tatsuya Kawasaki et al. Intensive Care Med. 2018 Jun.

. 2018 Jun;44(6):995-997.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-018-5188-7. Epub 2018 Apr 27.

Tatsuya Kawasaki¹, Nobuaki Shime², Lahn Straney³, Rinaldo Bellomo^{4

5}, Graeme MacLaren^{6

7}, David Pilcher^{8

9

10}, Luregn J Schlapbach^{11

12

13}

¹ Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan. tatsuya-kawasaki@i.shizuoka-pho.jp.
² Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan.
³ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
⁴ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
⁵ Intensive Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
⁶ Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
⁷ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (CORE), ANZICS House, Levers Terrace, Carlton South, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
¹⁰ Department of Intensive Care, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia.
¹¹ Paediatric Critical Care Research Group, Mater Research Institute and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
¹² Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

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Proposal of a New Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score for Possible Validation.
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Adaptation and Validation of a Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score and Evaluation of the Sepsis-3 Definitions in Critically Ill Children.
Matics TJ, Sanchez-Pinto LN. Matics TJ, et al. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Oct 2;171(10):e172352. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.2352. Epub 2017 Oct 2. JAMA Pediatr. 2017. PMID: 28783810 Free PMC article.
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