Paediatric emergency
Setting up and running a paediatric emergency department in a hospital in Malawi: 15 years on
... There is still a long way to go. Prehospital care is almost non-existent but efforts are underway to improve this; children come in late; drugs, blood or fluids may be unavailable or slow to find. The intensive care unit ...
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Referral patterns, delays, and equity in access to advanced paediatric emergency care in Vietnam
... private clinics is necessary to capture a system-wide view of paediatric emergency care. We did not include chil- dren dying or in imminent danger of death in our sam- pling frame for ethical reasons, who ...
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Pattern of respiratory diseases in children presenting to the paediatric emergency unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu: a case series report
... This study was done to ascertain the pattern and out- come of respiratory diseases in children presenting to the paediatric emergency unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital,[r] ...
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Study of Cutaneous Manifestations in Children Presenting to Paediatric Emergency Department
... The reported incidence of purpura fulminans in paediatric emergency department in a study done in India was 12.2% (3). Purpura fulminans is a severe skin disorder characterised by widespread cutaneous ...
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Clinical predictors of radiographic abnormalities among infants with bronchiolitis in a paediatric emergency department
... Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of children less than 2 years of age with clinical bronchiolitis, who presented for evaluation at the paediatric emergency department of an urban general ...
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The design of a multicentre Canadian surveillance study of sedation safety in the paediatric emergency department
... Methods: This multicentre, prospective cohort study is enrolling patients under 18 years of age from six paediatric emergency departments across Canada. Data collection is fully integrated into clinical ...
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Qualitative evaluation of a deferred consent process in paediatric emergency research: a PREDICT study
... of paediatric emergency ...true emergency life-threatening ...that emergency research is vital, that interventions used in EDs should be evidence based and that researchers need to engage the ...
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Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland
... of paediatric emergency medicine, what are the most important research questions which need addressing?” Each respondent could enter up to 12 research questions and, for each, the respondent was required to ...
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Access to paediatric emergency departments in Italy: a comparison between immigrant and Italian patients
... the paediatric emer- gency department of ten Italian public ...the paediatric emergency departments were recorded by a medical inter- ...same paediatric emergency department, whose ...
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Comparison of two European paediatric emergency departments: does primary care organisation influence emergency attendance?
... adult emergency medicine physicians (EMP) and in the case of minor trauma patients also by Emergency Nurse ...separate paediatric admissions unit and the ED is the only entry point except for ...
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A simple clinical scoring system ‘TOPRS’ to predict the outcome and mortalilty in paediatric emergency department in TVMCH.
... Triage plays a very important role in the Emergency department. It helps to make sure that the sick children are treated according to degree of severity of their disease severity and so that appropriate treatment ...
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Can paediatric emergency clinicians identify and manage clavicle fractures without radiographs in the emergency department? A prospective study
... Although the current standard of practice is to obtain a radiograph for every suspected clavicle fracture, our study supports that X-rays do not add any valuable information to clinicians’ assessment in the ...
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Injury surveillance in paediatric emergency department (Mini review and Case study)
... In keeping with the ethos of prioritisation based on clinical need, most routine injury surveillance programmes focus on those who are most severely injured. In the UK, the Trauma Audit Research Network, TARN (7a), ...
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A randomised controlled trial of cognitive aids for emergency airway equipment preparation in a Paediatric Emergency Department
... medical staff participate in a half day multidisciplinary airway workshop during their ED term. Members of the resuscitation team (nursing, junior and senior medical staff ) were recruited individually during clinical ...
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AUDIT Overcrowding and possible solutions for a busy paediatric emergency department
... in paediatric and neonatal intensive care units, not using checklist for proper re-assessment of patients and early discharge, overburdened by patients coming in just for nebulisation and intravenous or ...
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Incidence of Hypoglycaemia in a Paediatric Emergency Ward in Nigeria
... Materials and Methods: This was a hospital based prospective descriptive study conducted in the children’s emergency ward (CHEW) of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba over a ten month period. ...
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Development of a combined paediatric emergency department and observation unit
... additional paediatric services are provided, more rapid means of transport devised and the unit staff becomes more practised with high- turnover patients, additional diagnoses will be accepted for admission to the ...
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Reliability and validity of triage systems in paediatric emergency care
... Especially in a crowded emergency department it is important that there is a triage nurse whose primarily role is triage. She will perform a rapid assessment (30–60 sec- onds) and long conversations with patients ...
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Reliability and accuracy of smartphones for paediatric infectious disease consultations for children with rash in the paediatric emergency department
... Pediatric Emergency Department of ...400-bed paediatric teaching hospital with 128,000 paediatric emer- gency visits, 15,000 hospitalizations and 750,000 outpatient visits ...by paediatric ...
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The clinical respiratory score predicts paediatric critical care disposition in children with respiratory distress presenting to the emergency department
... example, Paediatric Respiratory Assessment Measure (PRAM) can predict asthma severity and re- sponse to treatment, using vital signs, oxygen saturation, accessory muscle use, degrees of air entry and wheezing as ...
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