Yıldızdaş Dinçer, Aslan Nagehan
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatrics Intensive Care, Çukurova University Faculty of Medicine, Adana, Turkey.
Turk Arch Pediatr. 2021 Jan 12;56(2):141-146. doi: 10.14744/TurkPediatriArs.2020.26937. eCollection 2021 Mar.
In this study, we have planned to present the results of a national survey performed to evaluate the last situation of pediatric intensive care specialty and pediatric intensive care units in Turkey.
We have sent an electronic survey which includes 47 questions about the characteristics of pediatric intensive care units, staff, and equipment to members of the Turkish Society of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care via email.
A total of 58 participant units responded to our survey. 93.2% of the centers have tertiary level pediatric intensive care units. There were 841 tertiary level pediatric intensive care beds. There were 35 pediatric intensive care faculty members, 44 pediatric intensive care specialists, and 53 pediatric intensive care fellows. In the participant units, the total number of invasive mechanical ventilators in the units was 806, the number of specific non-invasive mechanical ventilators was 126. It was learned that 79.3% of the centers could apply continuous renal replacement therapy, 84.4% of therapeutic plasma exchange, 46.5% of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
We see that the way we have traveled in the 20 years since the establishment of the first units is very important and proud. The number of educated new generation pediatric intensive care specialists and the well-equipped pediatric intensive care units established by these specialists in every region of our country together with the fellowship education applied in many centers make a great contribution to the treatment of the critically ill pediatric patient population in our country.
在本研究中，我们计划展示一项全国性调查的结果，该调查旨在评估土耳其儿科重症监护专业及儿科重症监护病房的现状。
我们通过电子邮件向土耳其儿科急诊与重症监护学会的成员发送了一份电子调查问卷，其中包含47个关于儿科重症监护病房的特征、工作人员和设备的问题。
共有58个参与单位回复了我们的调查。93.2%的中心设有三级儿科重症监护病房。共有841张三级儿科重症监护病床。有35名儿科重症监护教员、44名儿科重症监护专家和53名儿科重症监护住院医师。在参与单位中，各单位有创机械通气机总数为806台，特定无创机械通气机数量为126台。据了解，79.3%的中心能够开展持续肾脏替代治疗，84.4%的中心能够开展治疗性血浆置换，46.5%的中心能够开展体外膜肺氧合。
我们看到，自首批单位成立以来的20年里我们所走过的道路非常重要且令人自豪。受过教育的新一代儿科重症监护专家的数量，以及这些专家在我国各个地区建立的设备完善的儿科重症监护病房，再加上许多中心开展的住院医师教育，为我国危重症儿科患者群体的治疗做出了巨大贡献。
