Emergency paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions in Scotland requiring invasive mechanical ventilation, diagnoses within ICD-11 Chapter 18 (disorders of the neurological system)
| Diagnosis | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Seizure disorder | 22 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 8 |
| Autoimmune | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Infection | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Inflammatory | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Intracranial haemorrhage/ischaemia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Headache | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hydrocephalus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Neuropathy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Motor neuron disease | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Intracranial haemorrhage/toxic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
PICU admissions from 23 March to 30 June 2020 compared with the same date range in previous years (2016–2019).
ICD-11, International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision.