

Data obtained included severity of illness, level of respiratory support, exposure to medications and blood products, as well as daily cognitive status. We performed a single-center retrospective cohort analysis including children admitted to the PICU between 20 who were transfused platelets within the first 14 days of admission. We hypothesized that receipt of platelets would be associated with delirium development in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Platelet transfusions may potentiate the body’s pro-inflammatory responses. Inflammation has been implicated as a mechanism for the development of delirium. The Wilds are no longer a safe haven for the rebels and pockets of resistance have opened throughout the country.And when a face from her past reappears, Lena is faced with a devastating choice that could tear her and the revolution apart.Īll the stories expand upon and enrich the Delirium world, illuminating events and characters through different perspectives.HANA adds nuance to the life-changing summer before best friends Lena and Hana are to be cured - a moment when the girls' paths diverge and their futures are altered forever.ANNABEL untangles the mysteries surrounding Lena's mother, detailing her journey from teenage runaway to prisoner of the state.Delirium is a frequent, serious, and preventable complication in critically ill children.

She's questioned everything she's ever been taught and fought for love and the life-changing and agonising emotions that come with it.But now, while she may have escaped the tyranny of the government, she is headng into the heart of something that could be just as dangerous - a growing resistance movement where the sparks of a revolution are about to ignite.Īn all-out uprising has been ignited and Lena Haloway is right at its centre.But things have changed.

People would go to the end of the earth to find it. Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie.There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world.
