| General | | Sepsis (including meningococcemia) | | Asphyxiation (accidental or deliberate) | | Anaphylaxis | | Metabolic decompensation | | Hyperthermia | | Poisoning (with toxic effects on kidney, liver, and/or brain) | | Inborn errors of metabolism (may affect liver, muscle, and/or brain) | | Blood | | Sickle cell disease in crisis | | Heart | | Subendocardial fibroelastosis | | Congenital heart disease (especially aortic stenosis) | | Myocarditis | | Lungs | | Pneumonia | | Bronchiolitis | | Tracheobronchitis (severe) | | Aspiration or airway obstruction | | Idiopathic pulmonary hypertension | | Kidney | | Pyelonephritis | | | Gastrointestinal tract | | Enterocolitis with Salmonella, Shigella, or pathogenic Escherichia coli | | Liver | | Hepatitis | | Pancreas | | Pancreatitis | | Boric acid poisoning | | Cystic fibrosis | | Adrenal | | Congenital adrenal hyperplasia | | Brain | | Encephalitis | | Trauma (skull fracture, cerebral edema, subdural hemorrhage) | | Child abuse (abusive head trauma, intentional suffocation) | | Arteriovenous malformation with bleeding | |
