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B Methods: b Nurse led morning huddles were started in PICU of Aga Khan University Hospital, after taking all stakeholders on board and making a consensus list of things to be discussed at these huddles. B Introduction: b We aimed to evaluate the perception, knowledge, empowerment & the comfort level of critical care staff (including physician, nurses, and paramedics) in relation to implementation of safety huddles in paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan. [Extracted from the article]

Congenital vallecular cyst is one of the rare etiologies of upper airway obstruction. Due to the scarcity of literature review, the exact incidence is not known. We report the case of a 10-month-old infant, who came to to Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) for the first time with signs of upper airway obstruction; was initially misdiagnosed as foreign body aspiration for which an emergency bronchoscopy was performed that did not reveal any foreign body. The patient was then managed in the pediatric intensive care unit, where he was diagnosed as a congenital vallecular cyst on a subsequent laryngoscopy after extubation failure. The cyst was aspirated and cauterized by the ENT team. The patient was successfully extubated without any signs of upper airway obstruction. In evaluating a child with signs and symptoms of upper airway obstruction, it is crucial to consider not only common causes like foreign body, acute epiglottitis, and croup, but also rare factors such as laryngeal cysts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

B Conclusions: b Our study shows that PICU is progressing is Pakistan but highlighted the deficiencies in the pediatric critical care infrastructure in Pakistan. This study aims to evaluate the current landscape of pediatric critical care facilities in Pakistan. B Introduction: b With persistent population growth and the need to rapidly provide healthcare coverage in Pakistan, the need to enhance the critical care capacity may also have increased. [Extracted from the article]

B Objective: b To determine the performance of a commercially available predictive analytic tool (IDO2) to predict SVO2< 40% in patients admitted in cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) of Aga Khan University Pakistan. Compared to all other IDO2 ranges, average IDO2 above 75 had the highest absolute risk (42.11, confidence interval: 20.25-66.50) and highest relative risk (4.63, confidence interval: 2.31-9.28, p-value < 0.0001) of SvO2 < 40%. B Conclusions: b iDO2 performed well in predicting low SvO2 (< 40%) in pediatric patients presenting to a CICU in a low resource setting. [Extracted from the article]