Background: This study was undertaken to know about the clinical profile and outcome of patients admitted in paediatric ICU in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: This is a hospital based, retrospective, descriptive study, done on patients admitted to paediatric ICU, ICARE Institute of Medical Science and Research and Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Hospital, Haldia, West Bengal, India for one year. Results: As about 424 patients were admitted paediatric ICU. 79 patients were excluded from the study. Remaining 345 PICU patients were analysed. According to the age distribution of patients, it showed that 5years of age were (30.4%). There was a female preponderance (58.8%), males were (41.1%). Patients from rural area were 243 (70.4%) and 102 (29.5%) from urban area. Clinical profile showed that pneumonia was the most common diagnosis (8.4%) for admission in PICU. This was followed by bronchiolitis (6.9%)(5.5%),, enteric unknown fever bite in (5.2%) (6.6%), acute febrile severe seizures asthma (6.3%) (4.9%), poisoning, sepsis (6.0%) (4.6%), renal severe problems gastritis (5.7%) (4.3%), occult, clinical bacteremia dengue (3.7%), seizure disorder (3.4%), croup (3.1%), traumatic head injury (2.8%), wheeze associated LRI (2.6%), acute otitis media (2.3%), migraine (2.0%), meningitis (1.7%), CHD with complications (1.7%), severe anaemia with CCF (1.4%), acute urticarial (1.4%), foreign body (1.1%), electric shock (1.1%), scorpion sting (0.8%), viral hepatitis (0.8%) angioedema, clinical The malaria outcome (0.8%) noted, nephrotic was, (87.8%) syndrome were discharged, with complications (10.7%) (0.5%) patients, scrub went against typhus (0.2%) medical and advice, (0.2%) (1.4%) was patients were referred at parent’s request. Conclusions: Respiratory illness, infectious diseases, neurological problems and poisoning are the most common cause for PICU admissions. But seronegative dengue cases, electric shock, re-emergence of scrub typhus, are being increasingly also recommend diagnosed. better manpower So, emphasis and infrastructures therefore placed to improve on high the index outcome of suspicion of patients for admitted this type of to PICU. conditions.

Background: This study was undertaken to know about the clinical profile and outcome of patients admitted in paediatric ICU in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: This is a hospital based, retrospective, descriptive study, done on patients admitted to paediatric ICU, ICARE Institute of Medical Science and Research and Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy Hospital, Haldia, West Bengal, India for one year. Results: As about 424 patients were admitted paediatric ICU. 79 patients were excluded from the study. Remaining 345 PICU patients were analysed. According to the age distribution of patients, it showed that 5years of age were (30.4%). There was a female preponderance (58.8%), males were (41.1%). Patients from rural area were 243 (70.4%) and 102 (29.5%) from urban area. Clinical profile showed that pneumonia was the most common diagnosis (8.4%) for admission in PICU. This was followed by bronchiolitis (6.9%)(5.5%),, enteric unknown fever bite in (5.2%) (6.6%), acute febrile severe seizures asthma (6.3%) (4.9%), poisoning, sepsis (6.0%) (4.6%), renal severe problems gastritis (5.7%) (4.3%), occult, clinical bacteremia dengue (3.7%), seizure disorder (3.4%), croup (3.1%), traumatic head injury (2.8%), wheeze associated LRI (2.6%), acute otitis media (2.3%), migraine (2.0%), meningitis (1.7%), CHD with complications (1.7%), severe anaemia with CCF (1.4%), acute urticarial (1.4%), foreign body (1.1%), electric shock (1.1%), scorpion sting (0.8%), viral hepatitis (0.8%) angioedema, clinical The malaria outcome (0.8%) noted, nephrotic was, (87.8%) syndrome were discharged, with complications (10.7%) (0.5%) patients, scrub went against typhus (0.2%) medical and advice, (0.2%) (1.4%) was patients were referred at parent’s request. Conclusions: Respiratory illness, infectious diseases, neurological problems and poisoning are the most common cause for PICU admissions. But seronegative dengue cases, electric shock, re-emergence of scrub typhus, are being increasingly also recommend diagnosed. better manpower So, emphasis and infrastructures therefore placed to improve on high the index outcome of suspicion of patients for admitted this type of to PICU. conditions.