Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2010;17(6):564-567

doi:10.3760/cma.j.issn.1673-4912.2010.06.037

Pancreatic enzymes in evaluation of pancreatic damage in critically ill children

Fang LIU

Keywords

Critically ill; Serum amylase; Serum lipase; Pancreatic damage; Children

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Critically ill children are often complicated with multiple organ damage. When the pancreas was involved, kinds of pancreatic enzymes would elevate, which suggested the high risk complication of pancreatic damage was really existed. The changes of pancreatic enzymes under different critical conditions such as shock, surgery, injury, etc. were reviewed, as well as the clinical significance of different pancreatic enzymes, so as to provide evidence for acknowledge the early biological signs in early phase of critically ill children with pancreatic damage,to decrease the mortality of complications and to improve the prognosis of critically ill children.