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Western countries have seen dramatic reductions in child mortality in the last century and overall improvements in child health with a neonatal mortality rate and an under 5 years old mortality rate below 10 per 1,000 live births (Goodman et al. 2002; WHO 2009). Neonatal and pediatric intensive care units and caregivers both play a role in this improvement. In Canada and USA, the management of critically ill newborn and children is done in two separate units with their own specific training programs and board certifications. The number of ICU beds is higher for neonates than for children (2–5.4 beds per 100,000 (Barry and Hocking 1994; Milne and Whitty 1995; Randolph et al. 2004) and 3.4 beds per 1,000 live births (Goodman et al. 2002), respectively), so there are more NICUs compared to PICUs, but mechanical ventilation has similar organization in both.
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Newth, C.J.L., Jouvet, P. (2015). Organization Characteristics in North America. In: Rimensberger, P. (eds) Pediatric and Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01219-8_69
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