Pillon M, et al. - Since several studies have described results and mortality predictors for patients post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), but there are some data on the category of non-HSCT patients, researchers evaluated the relationship between demographic and clinical features and 90-day mortality after admission to pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Patients were impacted primarily by hematological malignancies and were mostly in the phase of induction therapy. Respiratory failure, sepsis, and seizures were the main reasons for admission. PICU admission was required by a relatively small percentage of non-HSCT patients, but the mortality rate was high. Hemodynamic instability, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and acute kidney injury were important predictors of mortality, but not respiratory failure.