- Hospital and PICU admission criteria in cases of acute bronchiolitis.

Hospital and PICU admission criteria in cases of acute bronchiolitis.

Hospital Admission Criteria:

• Hypoxemia <90% on room air
• Dehydration with inability to maintain hydration
• Major comorbidity
• Need to rule out alternative diagnosis
• heart rate >180 bpm
• Moderate to Severe distress
• Inability to care for child at home.
• Strongly consider in infants with high-risk criteria:

- LBW
- age <6 wk,
- Prematurity
- Cardiac (Pulmonary hypertension,heart failure or cyanotic heart disease) .
- Pulmonary disease (BPD, cystic fibrosis or congenital anomalies of airway)
- Immunodeficiency
- neuromuscular disease

Critical care admission criteria:

• Recurrent apneas
• Concern regarding impending respiratory failure, increasing oxygen requirements
• High risk criteria…