Predictor of Death in Diarrheal Children Under 5 Years of Age Having Severe Sepsis in an Urban Critical Care Ward in Bangladesh

Abstract

We aimed to identify clinical predictors of fatal outcome in children under 5 years of age having diarrhea and severe sepsis and treated in the Intensive Care Unit of the Dhaka Hospital of icddr,b from October 2010 through September 2011. Among 191 enrolled children, 70 (37%) died and were considered to be cases, while the remaining 121 (63%) who survived constituted the controls. The cases more often had shortness of breath (SOB), septic shock, dehydrating diarrhea compared with the controls (for all, P