Evaluation of a modified paediatric early warning score for children with congenital heart disease

BACKGROUND: Paediatric early warning score systems are used for early detection of clinical deterioration of patients in paediatric wards. Several paediatric early warning scores have been developed, but most of them are not suitable for children with cyanotic CHD who are adapted to lower arterial oxygen saturation.

AIM: The present study compared the original paediatric early warning system of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland with a modification for children with cyanotic CHD.

DESIGN: Retrospective single-centre study in a paediatric cardiology intermediate care unit at a German university hospital.

RESULTS: The distribution of recorded values showed a significant shift towards higher score values in patients with cyanotic CHD (p < 0.001) using the original score, but not with the modification. An analysis of sensitivity and specificity for the factor "requirement of action" showed an area under the receiver operating characteristic for non-cyanotic patients of 0.908 (95% CI 0.862-0.954). For patients with cyanotic CHD, using the original score, the area under the receiver operating characteristic was reduced to 0.731 (95% CI 0.637-0.824, p = 0.001) compared to 0.862 (95% CI 0.809-0.915, p = 0.207), when the modified score was used. Using the critical threshold of scores ≥ 4 in patients with cyanotic CHD, sensitivity and specificity for the modified score was higher than for the original (sensitivity 78.8 versus 72.7%, specificity 78.2 versus 58.4%).

CONCLUSION: The modified score is a uniform scoring system for identifying clinical deterioration, which can be used in children with and without cyanotic CHD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Cardiology in the young - 34(2024), 3 vom: 30. März, Seite 637-642

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Commotio, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Leister, Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Menzel, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Ulrichs, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Wetsch, Wolfgang A [VerfasserIn]
Emmel, Mathias [VerfasserIn]
Trieschmann, Uwe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiopulmonary arrest
Congenital
Early warning score
Heart defects
ICU
Journal Article
Paediatric
Patient safety

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Date Completed 04.03.2024

Date Revised 04.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S1047951123003189

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361919808