Acute Neurological Complications and Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Children Undergoing Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

The DENVER II is a measure of developmental problems in young children. It was designed to assess child performance on various age-appropriate tasks and compares a given child's performance to the performance of other children the same age. The instrument consists of 125 tasks, which broadly reflect the following areas: personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, language, and gross motor. The target population corresponds to infants and pre-school age children. The POPC and PCPC are global scales based on observer impressions. Scores include 1 for good, 2 for mild disability, 3 for moderate disability, 4 for severe disability, and 5 for vegetative state or coma (6 indicates death).

The PedsQL questionnaire is a modular approach to measuring health-related quality of life in healthy children and adolescents and those with acute and chronic health conditions. The PedsQL Measurement Model integrates seamlessly both generic core scales and disease-specific modules into one measurement system. Twenty-three items divided into different functional areas are evaluated: physical (8 items), emotional (5 items), social (5 items) and school (5 items over 4 years old; 3 items before 4 y.o). Child self-report and parent proxy report formats of the questionnaire allows self-assessment of child over 5 years old and parents' evaluations. Items can be reverse and linearly transformed to a 0-100 scale (0=100, 1=75, 2=50, 3=25, 4=0) with higher scores indicating better quality of life.