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Background: We aimed at auditing the admissions and outcomes of paediatric patients admitted into a general open Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Patients and Methods: This was a retrospective, case-control study of all paediatric patients (a day old to 17 years old) admitted into our general open ICU of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria. The study was conducted over fiveyear period from January 2012 to December 2016. Patients admitted within the above period were identified through their case notes and the ICU records books and all eligible patients were identified and recruited into the study. Results: A total of 2,565 patients were admitted to the ICU during the study period out of which 508 (19.8%) were children. There were 284 (55.9%) males and 224 (44.1%) females’ paediatric patients with M: F ratio of 1.3: 1 within the period under review. The age ranges between one day old to seventeen years old children with mean age of 3.23 ± 4.45 years. Surgical indications for admission into the ICU were the highest with 69.5%, while medical indications were 30.5%. Length of Stay (LOS) in ICU from ˂ 1 day to 90 days with the mean of LOS is 6.02 ± 23.23 days. The mortality rate was 26.2%. Conclusions: The high mortality rates recorded in this study indicate the need to establish paediatric ICU and the urgent need for training and re-training of staff toward new guidelines in the management paediatric patients in ICU.

An Audit of Paediatrics Admissions and Outcomes into a General Intensive Care Unit at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital: A Five-Year Review