Pediatric Early Warning Score
The sensitivity of PEWS was 85.5%, de-
fined as the patient’s having had a critical
score within 24 hours before the
event. As shown in Table 1, the median
time from the first critical PEWS to an
RRT or code event was 696 minutes (11
hours, 36 minutes) and the latest critical
score was 30 minutes for 159
(85.5%) of 186 patients in this study. A
total of 73.1% of patients had a critical
PEWS just before the RRT or code event
(not shown in Table 1). The median
time from a critical PEWS just before
the event was 30 minutes. Consistent
with pediatric patterns of compensation,
critical respiratory domain
scores (score of 3) were the earliest to
precede the critical event at 21 hours,
8 minutes for 51.6% of patients.