Clinical profile of children aged between 1 to 15 years with acute systemic infections attending tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Sepsis is a common, life-threatening condition in the pediatric ICU. Severe sepsis and septic shock occurs in all settings and age groups and many of these children often have associated co-morbidities such as prematurity or malignancy. However, in the community at large, recent epidemiologic data indicate that more than half the cases of severe sepsis occur in children without a predisposing condition. Presence of two or more of the following symptoms, i.e. temperature instability (core temp >38.5/