الفهرس 
Critically Ill ChildOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
SUMMARY
Background: Critical care medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the provision of life support or organ support to patients with system failure.
Some centers had studied the commonest diagnoses lead to PICU admission including respiratory tract diseases, cardiovascular disorders, infectious diseases, neurological disorders, hemodynamic disorders, postsurgical interventions among others.
There are a number of hereditary and non-hereditary central nervous system (CNS) disorders, which directly or indirectly affect the heart.
The most well-known of these CNS-disorders are epilepsy, stroke, subarachnoid bleeding, meningitis, and head injury.
Affection of the heart may manifest as arrhythmias, autonomic dysfunction, and systolic or diastolic dysfunction.
Arrhythmias induced by hereditary CNS disease include supraventricular or ventricular arrhythmias leading to palpitations, dizziness, vertigo, fainting, syncope, (near) sudden cardiac death, or sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP).
Appropriate management of cardiac involvement in CNS-disorders is essential to improve outcome of affected patients.
This study was an observational prospective cohort study which was carried out in pediatric department, Tanta University Hospitals upon one