肺炎是儿科的常见病、多发病,几乎占基层医院儿科住院病人的三分之一。北方以冬春季为高峰,婴幼儿易感。重者常并发心衰、中毒性肠麻痹、中毒性脑病、DIC或多脏器功能衰竭,是肺炎患儿死亡的主要原因。因此,做到对上述并发症的及时正确处理,是降低肺炎患儿死亡的关键。现就我院1993～1996年收治的重症肺炎124例,其中并发脑水肿30例总结如下。 Pneumonia is a common pediatric disease, frequently-occurring disease, accounting for almost one-third of pediatric hospital patients in primary hospitals. North winter and spring peak, infants susceptible. Severe cases often complicated by heart failure, toxic intestinal paralysis, toxic encephalopathy, DIC or multiple organ failure, is the leading cause of death in children with pneumonia. Therefore, to achieve the timely and correct treatment of these complications, is to reduce the key to the death of children with pneumonia. Now our hospital from 1993 to 1996 admitted 124 cases of severe pneumonia, including 30 cases of cerebral edema complicated as follows.