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Article: How do critically ill children present to a local emergency department?
Title | How do critically ill children present to a local emergency department? |
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Keywords | Emergencies Child Wounds and injuries Critical illness |
Issue Date | 2007 |
Citation | Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2007, v. 14, n. 2, p. 83-88 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Objective: To describe the profile of critically ill paediatric patients presenting to a local emergency department. Methods: This was a retrospective review of all triage Category 1 (critical) children aged from 0 to 16 years presenting to the emergency department of Queen Mary Hospital. The study period was from January 1998 to September 2006. Results: A total of 277 patients were analyzed. Trauma was a major cause of presentation. It constituted 37.9% of the cases. Of the trauma cases, head injury was the most common. For non-trauma cases, convulsion was the commonest reason of attendance. Cardiorespiratory arrest was uncommon (3.6%). The overall mortality rate was 7.6%. A high proportion (43.3%) of the patients was managed solely by staff of the emergency department. Resuscitative procedures, such as intraosseous line, were infrequently practised. Conclusion: Trauma and convulsion were the major presentations of critically ill children. The fact that A&E staff managed a high proportion of the cases alone and the infrequent practice of resuscitative procedures make continuous training in paediatric resuscitation particularly important. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209449 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.297 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Fan, Kit Ling | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-04-21T07:49:20Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-04-21T07:49:20Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2007, v. 14, n. 2, p. 83-88 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1024-9079 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209449 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Objective: To describe the profile of critically ill paediatric patients presenting to a local emergency department. Methods: This was a retrospective review of all triage Category 1 (critical) children aged from 0 to 16 years presenting to the emergency department of Queen Mary Hospital. The study period was from January 1998 to September 2006. Results: A total of 277 patients were analyzed. Trauma was a major cause of presentation. It constituted 37.9% of the cases. Of the trauma cases, head injury was the most common. For non-trauma cases, convulsion was the commonest reason of attendance. Cardiorespiratory arrest was uncommon (3.6%). The overall mortality rate was 7.6%. A high proportion (43.3%) of the patients was managed solely by staff of the emergency department. Resuscitative procedures, such as intraosseous line, were infrequently practised. Conclusion: Trauma and convulsion were the major presentations of critically ill children. The fact that A&E staff managed a high proportion of the cases alone and the infrequent practice of resuscitative procedures make continuous training in paediatric resuscitation particularly important. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine | - |
dc.subject | Emergencies | - |
dc.subject | Child | - |
dc.subject | Wounds and injuries | - |
dc.subject | Critical illness | - |
dc.title | How do critically ill children present to a local emergency department? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-34248664697 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 83 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 88 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1024-9079 | - |