Establishment and application of a database of severe sepsis in children / 中国小儿急救医学

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Objective:Through the establishment and preliminary application of standardized, real-time and online database of severe sepsis in children, we can realize the information about management of children with severe sepsis, providing data to support scientific research and clinical work, and building a homogeneous scientific research and clinical platform for multiple units participating in constructing the database.Methods:We designed, developed and established an online database system for children with severe sepsis, which was filled in in real time by 19 member units of Diagnosis and Treatment Collaboration Group for Sepsis in Children in Shandong Province.The basic information, treatment and prognosis of children entered in the database were preliminarily analyzed.Results:(1)A real-time online disease-specific database for severe sepsis in children was established primarily, with the classification, storage, logical retrieval, statistical analysis and map-making of the information of children with severe sepsis.(2)Further analysis was conducted on the clinical data of 602 children with severe sepsis, which had been recorded in the database.There were 341 males(56.6%)and 261 females(43.4%). The median age was 16 months.There were 230(38.2%)children younger than 1 year old, and 274 children aged from 1 to 5 years old(45.5%), 98 children(16.3%)were 6 years old and above.Three hundred and forty-three cases(57.0%)were from rural areas.One hundred and eighty-one cases(30.1%)were found to have basic diseases.The primary site of infection was the respiratory system(40.8%). The in-hospital mortality was 15.6% in children with severe sepsis.Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that high pediatric risk of mortality score Ⅲ score at 24 hours after admission, acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute renal injury, mechanical ventilation and vasoactive drug treatment were independent risk factors for in-hospital death in children with severe sepsis( P<0.05). Conclusion:The disease-specific database of severe sepsis in children can provide data for scientific research and clinical practice of sepsis management in children, and contribute to the formulation and improvement of clinical decision-making in the future.Simultaneously, it has also constructed a homogeneous scientific research and clinical work platform, which may contribute to the common development of the participatory units.