The aim: to determine if an increased extravascular lung water level (EVLW) would be a predictor of multiple organ failure in pediatric patients with severe burn injury.
Materials and methods: a prospective study included 33 pediatric patients with burn surface from 30 to 90% of the total body surface area, admitted to PICU. All the patients were monitored with PICCO-technology advanced hemodynamic monitoring, that included an analysis ofEVLW level every 6 hours during first 48 hours after PICU admission.
Results: the diagnosis of multiple organ failure received according to DENVERII score. Normal values of weight indexed ELWI (extravascular lung water index)were 9-29 ml/kg for children under 1-year-oldage, 7-25 ml/kg for children from 1 to 5 years old and 5-13 ml/kg for children older than 5 years.
Conclusions: a normal value of height indexed ELWI was up to 315 ml/m. The height indexed ELWI level correlated reliably with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome rate in all time measurements. So ELWI can be used as a MOD prognostic factor There was no correlation between surface of burned skin and EVLW level.