Tetramine poisoning still occurs and seriously impairs children' s health. Some children suffered from brain injury or death. Diagnosing accurately as soon as possible, eliminating poison rapidly,using antidotes timely and controlling convulsion quickly are the crucial treatment principles.

In addition to parameter setting and mechanics monitoring,respiratory wavetorms are helpful for respiratory therapist in getting the real-time changes of respiratory mechanics and dynamically adjusting ventilator parameters.The curves of pressure to time,flow to time and volume to time accompanied by the loops of pressure to volume.flow to volume and pressure to flow can be displayed dynamically in new type ventilators.It will be definitely helpful to us to make good use of ventilator.

Training technologies on life support for pediatric critical illness mainly include basic life support,pediatric advanced life support,neonatal resuscitation program,pediatric trauma life support,pediatric fundamental critical care support,and simulation-based medical education.This article introduced and summarized the contents of training technologies on life support for pediatric critical illness,and elucidated the status on each project and its vision.

Hypertensive emergencies,though uncommon in children,are often involving severe organ dysfunction and potentially life threatening.Early recognition of hypertensive crisis and properly management to control the blood pressure are the key points of the treatment.Drug therapy is an important antihypertensive treatment.

The key mechanism of severe infection (sepsis) is systemic inflammatory reaction syndrome. Continuous blood purification (CBP) is helpful for treatment of sepsis through removing medium and large molecular weight inflammatory mediators. Clinical application and lab researches have confirmed that CBP can stabilize cardiopulmonary function in patients with severe sepsis. Continuous veno-venous hemodiafiltration, continuous plasma filtration absorption and high volume hemofiltration can play a role in lowering inflammatory mediators in plasma and tissue. CBP has revealed a good prospect in the treatment of severe sepsis in children.

Severe hand foot and mouth disease can lead to death when accompanied by neurogenic pulmonary edema. Early identifying involvement of central nervous system, focusing on the evidences of excited sympathetic nerve tension and high risks of neurogenic pulmonary edema, monitoring respiratory rate,dyspnea, cyanosis, fine and medium rales in lungs are critical to prognosis. Managing fluid loading strictly, decreasing intracranial hypertension, supporting actively respiratory function and strengthening airway management are key points for the treatment of neurogenic pulmonary edema.

The 2012 version of international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock got re-revised on the basis of the 2008 version.For pediatric severe sepsis,the 2012 version enforces initial resuscitation;develops detailed ant-infection measures;stresses isotonic crystalloid fluid resuscitation and the use of albumin,hetastarch is no longer recommended ;reduces the value of early use of dopamine,and clears the use of corticosteroids indications and the use of blood products;mechanical ventilation is recommended to use lung protective ventilation strategy; standardizes sedation and analgesia applications; clears the level of blood glucose control;others include blood purification,nutrition,stress ulcer prevention recommendations.

[Abts ract] Ven tilato r-associated pneumonia ( VAP) is one fo the most common nosocomila infec-tions of mechanically ventilated children in PICU.VAP not only contributes to prolong ed hospital and PICU lengt h of stay,but asl o icn reaseds medical cost,mortality and mo rbility in critiac lly ill children.It′s an urgent task to prevent VA P in pediatrici ntensive care medicine.The aimo f the articel was to intor duce the epidemi-ology,risk factors,prevention strategya nd practice in children.The article reviewed guidelines of strategies to prevent VAP in pediatric patients.

The mi nimizign time on mechanical ventilait on is one of the great importna t issues in crit-ical ill patienst ,only limited guidance on weaing and extubation is available from the pediatric literature.T he clinical application ofni dicta ions for weaning are even less clear,and the protocol-based wae ningw ith sponta-neous breaht ing trail is a feasible way in pediatric intensive care unit.

Statin therapy has been shown to play a fundamental role in the treatment of coronary heart disease.Some studies have identified associations between genetic variants and response or toxicity in statin treatment.This review summarizes current knowledge of the pharmacogenomics of statin therapy in order to help to select the best individually adapted statin treatment for patients.