To the Editor: The upgradation of infrastructure, equipments/machines, and training of healthcare workers was done from January to June 2022 as per the standard norms [
1]. We retrospectively analysed the data of PICU before (Time Period-I: July-2018 to June-2020) and after (Time Period-II: July-2022 to December-2023) the infrastructure changes, to compare mortality, leave against medical advice (LAMA) and unmet need of mechanical ventilation (MV). Variables collected were age, sex, system involvement on admission, discharge, requirement of respiratory support (non-invasive and invasive), PICU length of stay (LOS) in days, death and LAMA. A
p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. …