Inpatient Management of Croup

Investigators from the University of Minnesota and Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, both in Minneapolis, conducted a retrospective study to describe “significant interventions” during inpatient hospitalization for children with croup and to identify predictors of the need for these interventions. For the study, the medical records of children discharged from 1 of 3 tertiary pediatric hospitals in Minnesota between March 2011 and September 2015 with an ICD-9 diagnosis of croup were reviewed. Identified patients were included in study analyses if they were 6 months to 5 years old, evaluated in the participating hospital’s ED, treated with at least 1 dose of racemic epinephrine (RE), and admitted to the inpatient unit. Children who were admitted directly to the …