Intensive care
Pediatric ICU scores for severity, organ dysfunction, mortality, sepsis, delirium and sedation.
This collection brings together 18 pediatric tools related to intensive care, including clinical descriptions, validation status, references and calculators when active.
Includes prognostic and organ-dysfunction tools such as PIM2, PIM3, PRISM IV, PELOD-2, pSOFA and Phoenix. Each page keeps purpose, population, sampling window and limitations explicit.
Featured tools
How to use this category
Tools are grouped by clinical area to make them easier to discover, while each page retains its own population, purpose, evidence level and limitations. Before using a score or calculator, review the exact variant, care setting and implementation status shown on its page.
Evidence and availability
PedsCore distinguishes active tools, clinical references, drafts and content limited by evidence or licensing. This is shown explicitly so that inclusion in the catalog is not mistaken for a recommendation to use the tool.
Scope and maintenance
Pages in this category are maintained individually: new evidence, a revised score version or a change in reuse conditions can alter one tool's availability without changing the rest of the category. PedsCore keeps references, validation notes and change traceability so that each result can be reviewed in its own clinical and documentary context.
Responsible clinical reading
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Available tools
- Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment — Six-system pediatric score for organ dysfunction.
- PELOD — Pediatric organ dysfunction score.
- PELOD-2 — PELOD-2 version for multi-organ dysfunction.
- PRISM III — Pediatric ICU mortality risk score.
- PRISM IV — PRISM IV version identified for review.
- PIM2 — Pediatric Index of Mortality version 2.
- PIM3 — Pediatric Index of Mortality version 3.
- Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium — Reference scale for pediatric delirium detection and longitudinal follow-up.
- Withdrawal Assessment Tool-1 — Reference tool for assessing withdrawal signs and serial change.
- State Behavioral Scale — Reference scale for pediatric sedation and agitation state.
- SOS-PD — Reference surface for pediatric delirium and serial assessment.
- pCAM-ICU — Reference for pediatric delirium detection in intensive care.
- psCAM-ICU — Reference for delirium detection adapted to younger children in intensive care.
- Braden QD — Reference scale for pediatric pressure-injury risk.
- Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale 2.0 — External reference tool for pediatric fall-risk assessment.
- Phoenix Sepsis Criteria — Reference framework for pediatric sepsis-associated organ dysfunction; it is not an early screening tool.
- ISPAD Pediatric DKA Severity — ISPAD reference framework for pediatric diabetic-ketoacidosis severity.
- COMFORT / COMFORT-B — Reference scale for serial assessment of sedation and distress in pediatric intensive care.