How Well Do Vital Signs Identify Children With Serious Infections In Pediatric Emergency Care?
This UK study demonstrates that pediatric vital signs can be used to help identify children with serious infections in pediatric emergency departments and offer similar diagnostic performance to more complicated triage tools.
How Comfortable Are Community-Hospital Emergency Physicians And Nurses With Emergency Pediatrics?
Physicians surveyed frequently commented that “symptoms displayed by children are so subtle that sepsis and septic shock are often missed. Source: iMedPub Journals
Cardiac Arrest Survival in Pediatric and General Emergency Departments
Analysis of the difference in survival rate of pediatric patients suffering from out of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) reveals a higher survival rate for children suffering from nontraumatic OHCA at pediatric emergency departments than at general emergency departments. Source: AAP
Pediatric Myocarditis: The Great Masquerader! Clinical Presentations and Early Predictors for Poor Outcomes.
Diagnosis different from myocarditis was made in 52% of cases. 31% were categorized as respiratory infection (bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and upper respiratory tract infection), 17% as gastrointestinal infection, 2%as urinary tract infection, and 2% as infantile colic. Source: WJCC
Pediatric Sepsis: A Challenging Diagnosis for Community-Hospital Emergency Physicians!
Due to the physiological differences between children and adults, it is now evident that pediatric sepsis is an entity distinct from adult sepsis. This article describes the challenges community hospital emergency providers face with diagnosis.Source: HHS Public Access
How Well Do Vital Signs Identify Children With Serious Infections In Pediatric Emergency Care?
This UK study demonstrates that pediatric vital signs can be used to help identify children with serious infections in pediatric emergency departments and offer similar diagnostic performance to more complicated triage tools. Source: BMJ Journals
