Original Article Analysis of risk factor for pediatric intensive care unit delirium in children: a case-control study

 
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Original Article Analysis of risk factor for pediatric intensive care unit delirium in children: a case-control study
Am J Transl Res 2021;13(8):9143-9151
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Original Article
Analysis of risk factor for pediatric intensive care unit
delirium in children: a case-control study

Xiao-Hua Ge1,2*, Wan-Rui Wei3*, Tie-Nan Feng4, Li-Li Xu5, Ya-Qin Hu5, Chang-Rong Yuan1,6
1
 School of Nursing, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China; 2Department of Nursing, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated
to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China; 3School of Nursing, Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China; 4Clinical Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine,
Shanghai, China; 5Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School
of Medicine, Shanghai, China; 6School of Nursing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. *Equal contributors.
Received December 27, 2020; Accepted May 14, 2021; Epub August 15, 2021; Published August 30, 2021

Abstract: Objective: This study aimed to survey the prevalence of delirium in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU)
and explore the associated risk factors. Design: A retrospective case-control study. Setting: Two PICUs within a
tertiary-A general hospital. Patients: Patients aged from 1 month to 7 years who stayed in either PICU for at least 1
day were included. Methods: A total of 639 patients admitted to PICU of a tertiary-A general hospital from December
2018 to August 2019 were enrolled. Demographic, clinical, laboratory data and length of stay in the PICU were col-
lected. The patients were screened twice a day with the Chinese version of Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium
(CAPD), and were divided into the delirium group and the non-delirium group. A risk factor analysis was conducted,
with ICU pediatric delirium as primary outcome, by performing a multivariable logistic regression analysis. Results:
Of the 639 patients, the prevalence of ICU pediatric delirium was 31.30%. Of the 200 children with delirium across
3703 study days, 36% children were hyperactive, 41% were hypoactive, and 23% displayed the mixed type of de-
lirium. Univariate analysis and multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that age, PRISM IV score (OR, 2.20;
95% CI, 1.42-3.41), hypoxia (OR, 2.69; 95% CI, 1.53-4.71), metabolic dis-function (OR, 3.73; 95% CI, 2.08-6.71),
duration of infection (OR, 1.22; 95% CI, 1.10-1.36), and mechanical ventilation (OR, 3.78; 95% CI, 2.25-6.35) were
statistically correlated with ICU pediatric delirium. The ROC curve analysis shows the combination CRP with dura-
tion of infection has good predictive performance. Conclusions: Age, PRISM IV score, ICU retention time, metabolic
dis-function, duration of infection, hypoxia, CRP and mechanical ventilation were the independent risk factors for
ICU pediatric delirium. We suggest that active preventive measures should be taken to reduce the occurrence of
ICU pediatric delirium.

Keywords: Pediatric, children, critical care, delirium, risk factor

Introduction                                                      ians of children suffering from delirium in PICU
                                                                  often have to afford higher healthcare costs [5].
Delirium refers to an acute fluctuating change                    A longer duration with ICU pediatric delirium is
in the state of consciousness, which is defined                   reported to be linked to worse outcomes [6].
by impairment of cognition, attention, and
behavior [1]. The specific features of pediatric                  Reported prevalence rates of pediatric delirium
delirium include delayed responses, sustained                     in critically ill children ranged from 12% to 47%
agitation, abnormal and implacable crying                         [7-15], and in a recent study were even up to
along with many other types of changes in psy-                    56% in children below 2 years of age [8].
chomotor activity. In ICU settings, pediatric                     Children at a young age (< 2 years), disease
delirium was linked with increased hospital                       severity, infectious diseases, inflammation,
mortality, prolonged mechanical ventilation                       mechanical ventilation, and antiepileptic drugs
and length of hospital stay. Pediatric patients                   were identified as important risk factors for ICU
may be at risk of exposure to both short-term                     pediatric delirium [10, 16, 17]. It is vital to care-
and long-term hazards [2-4]. Meanwhile, guard-                    fully identify the specific independent risk fac-
Analysis of risk factor for ICU pediatric delirium

tors linked to pediatric delirium as later this      Richmond agitation sedation scale (RASS) < -3;
information can help to develop significant and      2) Patients had delirium before admission; 3)
effective preventive strategies in patients.         Patients had previously undergone neurosur-
                                                     gery or neurological surgery; 4) Patients had
According to Maldonado [18, 19], the develop-        been diagnosed with mental illness or develop-
ment of delirium in patients is thought to be        mental delay and continued to be administered
based on at least six pathophysiology and            antipsychotic drugs; 5) Patients presented with
seven neuro-pathogenesis theories. Based on          hearing or visual impairment; 6) Patients had
the neuroinflammation hypothesis represented         missed or incomplete delirium score; 7)
by Cerejeira [20], infection may introduce spe-      Patients were non-Chinese or non-English lan-
cific triggering factors that may then provoke       guage users.
the inflammatory cascade activation, which
would include hypoxia, blood transfusions, ele-      Data collection
vated hormone levels, and so on. These neuro-
inflammatory changes lead to the destruction         The PICU responsible nurses explained this
of the permeability of the blood-brain barrier,      research to the children’s legal guardians and
and then result in neurobehavioral and cogni-        gave detailed instructions on what it would
tive symptoms of delirium [21]. Systemic inflam-     involve. Participants would be included after
mation, which may be caused by injury (includ-       their legal guardians signed an informed con-
ing surgical injury) or infection, has been widely   sent form containing detailed information
known as a triggering cause of delirium [19].        about the research. The study was registered in
However, few studies have examined C-reactive        the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (Registration
protein (CRP), one of the most common mark-          number: ChiCTR1800019825 http://www.chic-
ers for systemic inflammation, as a risk factor      tr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj= 33238).
for pediatric delirium. The aim of this research
was to survey the prevalence of delirium in          Each patient, 1 month-7 years of age, was
PICU and explore the associated risk factors.        screened for delirium twice daily by the
                                                     researchers using the Cornell Assessment of
Material and methods                                 Pediatric Delirium (CAPD). The CAPD score > 9
                                                     and RASS > -3 were considered as ICU pediat-
Study approval                                       ric delirium positive and a child who has been
                                                     assessed as delirium positive at least once dur-
Informed consent was obtained from parents/          ing his/her stay in PICU was defined as pediat-
guardians of all patients in accordance with a       ric delirium. Meanwhile, we identified a priori-
protocol reviewed and approved by the institu-       defined, non-mutually exclusive phenotypes of
tional ethical review board of Xinhua Hospital       delirium per the presence of hypoxia, sepsis,
Ethics Committee Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao         sedative exposure, or metabolic (e.g., renal)
Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai,        dysfunction. Delirium in the absence of hypox-
China (Approved No. of ethic committee:              ia, sepsis, sedation, and metabolic dysfunction
XHEC-C-2018-097).                                    was considered to be unclassified. In addition,
                                                     the data were collected by the researcher her-
Patient population                                   self and PICU nurses, and the researchers were
                                                     authorized by the scale inventor and the trans-
This retrospective observational study was con-      lator for the Chinese version. The CAPD was
ducted in 2 PICUs at Xinhua Hospital affiliated      validated for use in children and was reliable
to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which is a         for detecting delirium in children of all ages
tertiary-A general hospital in Shanghai, China.      (including infants) in PICU. The pilot experiment
Patients admitted to PICU from Dec. 2018 to          (n = 20) in this study measured Cronbach’s α of
Aug. 2019 were included. The inclusion criteria      CAPD as 0.97. Severity of illness was measured
were as follows: 1) ICU check-in time was more       by Pediatric Risk of Mortality IV (PRISM IV) [22]
than 24 hours; 2) Age was between 1 month            within 4 hours of being admitted to PICU. The
and 7 years; 3) Informed consent was obtained        higher the score, the more severe the condi-
from the parent/guardian. The exclusion crite-       tion. Demographic and clinical indicators were
ria were as follows: 1) After being admitted,        extracted from the Hospital Information
patients were in a coma or deep sedation with        System, including gender, age, duration of

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mechanical ventilation and sedative drug, CRP         delirium with duration of 1 day. The average
and length of PICU etc.                               was 1.79 (SD = 1.49) days for duration of ICU
                                                      pediatric delirium, and the median was 1 day.
When a patient’s arterial blood oxygen pres-          The longest duration was 9 days, while the
sure (PaO2) was less than 80 mmHg, the patient        shortest was 1 day.
was judged to be hypoxia. When a patient’s
white blood cell count, neutrophil ratio, and         Descriptions of patient population
daily maximum body temperature were out of
the normal range, the patient was judged to be        Demographics and clinical characteristics of
infected. In addition, sepsis data were obtained      the study population are shown in Table 1.
from Nosocomial Infection Monitoring System           Pediatric delirium occurred in 200 of 639
(NIM).                                                patients (31.3%) after PICU admission. There
                                                      were no statistically significant differences in
Statistical analysis                                  the distribution of sex, gestational age, surgery
                                                      or not, pain, head injury, opioid exposure
SPSS 22.0 statistical software was used to            between the case group and the control group
analyze and process the data. First, Univariate       (P > 0.05), but the differences in the distribu-
analysis (Chi-squared test) was conducted to          tion of age, admission diagnosis, emergency
examine the distributions of selected charac-         check-in, mechanically ventilated, restrict, ben-
teristics for cases and controls. Moreover, uni-      zodiazepine or dexmedetomidine exposure,
variate model analysis and multivariate condi-        LOS, PRISM IV score, duration of infection or
tional logistic regressions were used to exam-        hypoxia, and CRP were statistically significant
ine whether delirium was with different clinical      (P < 0.05).
phenotypes. The associations were presented
as odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence inter-       Risk factors
vals (CIs). Two-sided P values < 0.05 were con-
sidered statistically significant. The area under     As shown in Table 2, a single delirium pheno-
the ROC curve (AUC) was used to determine             type was present in only 51 (25.5%) of the 200
the diagnostic performance, and values > 0.75         children with ICU delirium, two phenotypes
were considered to represent good perfor-             account for 42%, whereas three or more pheno-
mance.                                                types were present among 47 (23.5%) delirium
                                                      patients. Hypoxic delirium was the most com-
Results                                               mon type (61%).

Description of delirium                               Multivariable logistic regression model for risk
                                                      factors of ICU pediatric delirium is shown in
A total of 639 patients met the criteria and          Table 3. The risk of ICU delirium in critically ill
were finally admitted to this study. Among 3703       children with mechanical ventilation is 3.78
study days (the sum of the enrollment days of         times that of non-mechanical ventilation (95%
all patients), delirium occurred in 581 (15.69%)      CI, 2.25-6.35), and the risk of delirium in chil-
study days. It was found that 36% of patients         dren with metabolic dysfunction is 3.73 times
with delirium were hyperactive, 41% were hypo-        that of metabolic function (95% CI, 2.08-6.71).
active and 23% showed a mix of the types. The         The risk of delirium in PICU patients with high
average age was 19.51±23.58 months. The               PRISM IV score is 2.2 times that of children
prevalence rate of pediatric delirium in PICU         with low PRISM IV score (95% CI, 1.42-3.41).
settings was 31.30%. Among the 200 children           Additionally, age of children, hypoxia (OR, 2.69;
with delirium, the first onset of pediatric deliri-   95% CI, 1.53-4.71), duration of infection (OR,
um occurred within the first seven admission          1.22; 95% CI, 1.10-1.36), LOS and CRP are
days to PICU. Among them, 176 cases (88%) of          independent risk factors.
delirium occurred for the first time within 72
hours of admission to PICU, 148 cases (74%)           Figure 1 shows the area under an ROC curve
occurred for the first time within 48 hours of        for combination CRP with duration of infection.
admission, 95 cases (47.5%) occurred for the          ROC curve analysis revealed that the area
first time within 24 hours of admission of PICU.      under ROC curve (AUC) of combination CRP
Moreover, 107 cases (53.5%) were pediatric            with duration of infection on predicting delirium

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Table 1. Demographics and clinical characteristics of the study population (n = 639)
                                                                          Never deliriums Ever deliriums Overall Cohort
Characteristic                                                                                                                 P Value
                                                                          (n = 439), N (%) (n = 200), n (%) (n = 639), N (%)
Age (month)
   37 M                                                                     95 (21.6)        20 (10.0)        115 (18.0)
Sex
  male                                                                       238 (54.2)       110 (55.0)       348 (54.5)       0.461
  female                                                                     201 (45.8)       90 (45.0)        291 (45.5)
Gestational
  Preterm                                                                     37 (8.4)        21 (10.5)         58 (9.1)        0.241
  No preterm                                                                 401 (91.3)       179 (89.5)       581 (90.9)
Admission diagnosis
  Sepsis/ARDS                                                                78 (17.8)        63 (31.5)        141 (22.1)      0.008**
  Surgery                                                                    264 (60.1)       102 (51.0)       366 (57.3)
  Asthma, other pulmonary disease                                             31 (7.1)         12 (6.0)         43 (6.7)
  Congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, or cardiogenic shock       6 (1.4)           3 (1.5)          9 (1.4)
  Airway protection                                                           17 (3.9)          7 (3.5)         24 (3.8)
  Other                                                                       43 (9.8)         13 (6.5)         56 (8.8)
Pain
  Yes                                                                       178 (89.00)      398 (90.66)       576 (90.01)      0.510
  No                                                                         22 (11.00)       41 (9.34)        65 (10.17)
Head injury
  Yes                                                                         3 (1.50)         4 (0.91)         7 (1.10)        0.510
  No                                                                        197 (98.50)      435 (99.09)      632 (98.90)
Emergency check-in
  Yes                                                                        90 (20.5)         55 (27.5)       145 (22.7)      0.033*
  No                                                                         349 (79.5)       145 (72.5)       494 (77.3)
Mechanically ventilated
  Yes                                                                        45 (10.3)        93 (46.5)        138 (21.6)      0.000**
  No                                                                         394 (89.7)       107 (53.5)       501 (78.4)
Restrict
  Yes                                                                        385 (87.7)       192 (96.0)       577 (90.3)      0.000**
  No                                                                         54 (12.3)          8 (4.0)         62 (9.7)
Opioid exposure
  Yes                                                                         16 (3.6)         12 (6.0)         28 (4.4)        0.128
  No                                                                         423 (96.4)       188 (94.0)       611 (95.6)
Dexmedetomidineor exposure
  Yes                                                                         18 (4.1)        22 (11.0)         40 (6.3)       0.001**
  No                                                                         421 (95.9)       178 (89.0)       599 (93.7)
Benzodiazepine exposure
  Yes                                                                        72 (16.4)        66 (33.0)        138 (21.6)      0.000**
  No                                                                         367 (83.6)       134 (67.0)       501 (78.4)
LOS                                                                                                                            0.000**
  1-2                                                                        183 (41.7)       32 (16.0)        215 (33.6)
  3-4                                                                        120 (27.3)       48 (24.0)        168 (26.3)
  5-6                                                                        69 (15.7)        29 (14.5)         98 (15.3)
  >7                                                                         67 (15.3)        91 (45.5)        158 (24.7)
PRISM IV Score                                                                                                                 0.000**
  1-6                                                                        376 (86.4)       93 (46.7)        469 (74.0)
  7-11                                                                       53 (12.2)        86 (43.2)        139 (21.9)
  ≥ 12                                                                        6 (14.0)        20 (10.1)         26 (4.1)
CRP (mg/L)                                                                                                                     0.001**
  < 10                                                                       143 (32.6)       40 (20.0)        183 (28.6)
  10-50                                                                      261 (59.5)       131 (65.5)       392 (61.3)
  > 50                                                                        35 (8.0)        29 (14.5)         64 (10.0)

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Duration of Infection                                                                    0.81±1.86                4.4±7.60                                    0.000**
Duration of Hypoxia                                                                      0.53±1.46               3.14±6.19                                    0.000**
Note: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01. CRP: C-reactive protein; LOS: Length of stay; PRISM IV Score: Pediatric Risk of Mortality IV Score; Duration of Hypoxia: Sum of days of
hypoxia during ICU stay; Duration of Infection: Sum of days of infection during ICU stay.

Table 2. Univariate analysis of delirium with different clinical phenotypes (n = 639)
                                Overall Cohort (n = 639) Never deliriums (n = 439)                        Ever deliriums (n = 200)
Clinical Phenotype                                                                                                                                 F          P Value
                                          n (%)                    n (%)                                             n (%)
Hypoxic    1
                                                                                                                                               100.28        0.000**
   No                                    426 (66.7)                           348 (79.3)                            78 (39.0)
   Yes                                   213 (33.3)                            91 (20.7)                           122 (61.0)
Septic2                                                                                                                                         16.01        0.000**
   No                                    532 (83.3)                           383 (87.2)                           149 (74.5)
   Yes                                    107 (16.7)                           56 (12.8)                            51 (25.5)
Metabolic3
   No                                    463 (72.5)                           369 (84.1)                            94 (47.0)                   94.53        0.000**
   Yes                                    176 (27.5)                           70 (15.9)                           106 (53.0)
Sedative-associated4
   None                                   367 (57.4)                          273 (62.2)                            94 (47.0)                   23.18        0.000**
   No benzodiazepines                    134 (21.0)                            94 (21.4)                            40 (20.0)
   Benzodiazepines                       138 (21.6)                            72 (16.4)                            66 (33.0)
co-exist                                                                                                                                       140.15        0.000**
   1 type                                235 (36.8)                           184 (41.9)                            51 (25.5)
   2 types                               142 (22.2)                            58 (13.2)                            84 (42.0)
   3-4 types                              73 (11.4)                             26 (5.9)                            47 (23.5)
   unclassified                          189 (29.6)                           171 (39.0)                             18 (9.0)
Note: **P < 0.01. 1. Hypoxia (PaO2 < 80 mmHg) or shock. 2. Known sepsis or systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria. 3. Blood urea
nitrogen > 6.4 mmol/L or serum creatinine > 62 μmol/L. 4. Receipt of benzodiazepine or propofol or dexmedetomidine.

Table 3. Multivariate logistic regression result of risk factors (n = 639)
                                                                                                                                         95% C.I.
Variable                                   B             S.E,               Wald              P Value             OR
                                                                                                                                lower limit   upper limit
Age                                     -0.37           0.11               12.11             0.001**             0.69              0.56           0.85
Mechanically ventilated                  1.33           0.26               25.32             0.000**             3.78              2.25           6.35
LOS                                      0.09           0.03               12.99             0.000**             1.10              1.04           1.16
Hypoxia                                  0.99           0.29               11.90             0.001**             2.69              1.53           4.71
Metabolic dysfunction                    1.32           0.30               19.36             0.000**             3.73              2.08           6.71
PRISM IV Score                           0.79           0.22               12.49             0.000**             2.20              1.42           3.41
CRP                                      0.01           0.00                8.60             0.003**             1.01              1.00           1.02
Duration of Infection                    0.20           0.05               13.83             0.000**             1.22              1.10           1.36
constant                                -3.38           0.59               33.04              0.000              0.03
Note: **P < 0.01. CRP: c-reactive protein; LOS: Length of stay; PRISM IV Score: Pediatric Risk of Mortality IV Score; Duration of
Infection: Sum of days of infection during ICU stay.

occurrence was 0.81, when the cut-off value                                                 Discussion
was over 0.28, the sensitivity was 75%, and the
specificity was 76%. The predicted results of                                               Delirium is caused by a significantly large range
the independent risk factors were in good                                                   of brain dysfunctions rather than specific local
agreement with the actual occurrence of ICU                                                 brain disorders. It is a reversible response of
pediatric delirium. The combination CRP with                                                brain tissue to hypoxia, infection, metabolic
duration of infection had good predictive                                                   and endocrine imbalances, and certain drugs.
performance.                                                                                The study results showed that age, mechani-

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                                                                                reported that the peripheral
                                                                                inflammatory response caused
                                                                                by infection or surgery could
                                                                                induce the activation of brain
                                                                                parenchymal cells, promote the
                                                                                expression of inflammatory
                                                                                markers in the central nervous
                                                                                system, and lead to neuronal
                                                                                and synaptic dysfunction, which
                                                                                in turn led to delirium. Hoog-
                                                                                land et al. included a systema-
                                                                                tic review [28] of 51 animal
                                                                                experiments, and their conclu-
                                                                                sions supported this hypothe-
                                                                                sis. Among critically ill children
                                                                                suffering from infectious or
                                                                                inflammatory diseases, it was
                                                                                found that PICU patients had
                                                                                the highest prevalence of deliri-
                                                                                um [10]. Nevertheless, Dechnik
                                                                                et al. [29] found that there was
                                                                                no association between CRP
                                                                                levels and ICU pediatric deliri-
                                                                                um. In addition, delirium was
                                                                                also thought to be secondary
                                                                                complication of systemic infec-
Figure 1. Predictive efficacy of duration of infection and CRP for delirium.
AUC: 0.81; Sensitivity: 0.75; Specificity: 0.76.
                                                                                tion [30] and regarded as a
                                                                                result of neuroinflammation in
                                                                                the brain with associated
cally ventilated, LOS, hypoxia, metabolic dys-                  release of brain cytokines causing direct neuro-
function, PRISM IV score, CRP, and duration of                  nal damage [18]; infection may lead to inflam-
infection were the risk factors for ICU pediatric               mation stress, and finally increases the preva-
delirium.                                                       lence of delirium.

Hypoxia was one of the major risk factors for                The severity of the illness affected the occur-
delirium in ICU [1]. Despite the association of              rence of ICU pediatric delirium. In this study,
hypoxia with pediatric delirium has not been                 the scores were divided into three groups: safe
fully explored in children, studies in adults have           observation group (1-6), boundary risk group
reported conflicting effects of hypoxia on both              (7-11), high risk group (more than 11). Higher
the occurrence and the development of deliri-                PRISM IV scores showed trends towards more
um [23-26]. Lopez et al. [27] found that hypoxia             delirium (OR, 2.02; 95% CI, 1.42-3.41; P =
was not an independent risk factor for postop-               0.000). The reason for this result may be that
erative delirium, while intraoperative hypoxia               as the PRISM IV score of ICU patients increas-
cerebral reperfusion was a risk factor. Hypoxia              es, the function of various organs decreases,
is able to cause edema, brain tissue damage                  including a decline in central cognitive function
and central nervous system disability, which                 and executive ability. In addition, the critically ill
can result in a decrease in the synthesis and                children have excessive stress response, which
release of acetylcholine, and an increase in                 leads to neuro-endocrine disorders and devel-
dopamine concentration and delirium.                         opes ICU pediatric delirium. Therefore, the
                                                             management of critically ill children should be
Multivariable logistic regression analysis indi-             strengthened and improved. Intervention and
cated that elevated c-reactive protein and dura-             treatment of the primary disease should take
tion of infection were independent risk factors              place as soon as possible to improve the func-
for PICU delirium. The neuroinflammatory                     tional status of key organs and minimize the
hypothesis represented by Cerejeira et al. [20]              risk of delirium [26].

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There are some limitations in the research.           were in accordance with the ethical standards
First, it’s a retrospective observational study       of the institutional and/or national research
and can only suggest an association and not           committee, as well as the 1964 Helsinki decla-
establish causality. While reporting the inde-        ration and its subsequent amendments or
pendent risk factors of ICU pediatric delirium,       comparable ethical standard. The guardians of
we did not present intraoperative cerebral oxy-       enrolled children gave written informed con-
genation, the degree of hypoxia, infection and        sents to participate this research project.
metabolic dysfunction. Therefore, the relation-
ship should be further examined in future stud-       Disclosure of conflict of interest
ies. Second, there’re some other factors that
may lead to the occurrence of delirium, such as       None.
sleep disturbance and deprivation, sedative
and analgesia drugs, and family members visit-        Address correspondence to: Xiao-Hua Ge and
ing, which are not included in our study. Finally,    Chang-Rong Yuan, School of Nursing, Naval Medical
the study was conducted in a single hospital in       University, 800 Xiangyin Road, Shanghai 200433,
Shanghai, so the conclusions may not be widely        China. E-mail: gexiaohua@xinhuamed.com.cn (XHG);
generalizable. Multi-location studies are need-       yuancr@fudan.edu.cn (CRY)
ed to validate the independent risk factors of
ICU pediatric delirium.                               References

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