Overview
This study is conducted in critically ill children with sepsis with a five years follow-up. We aim to investigate the impact of sepsis on long-term outcomes including growth, neurodevelopment, survival rate, quality of life.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
We included critically ill children with sepsis who successfully discharged from pediatric Intensive care units, age < 16 years.
We also included age, sex, illness severity matched critically ill children as control group.
Exclusion Criteria:
We excluded children with underlying diseases, cancer, hematologic malignancy.