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- Siba Prosad Paul, Fiona Barratt, and Rachel Wilkinson.
- Great Western Hospital, Swindon. siba.paul@gwh.nhs.uk
- Emerg Nurse. 2011 Dec 1;19(8):21-5; quiz 27.
AbstractThis article offers a guide to history taking and initial assessment of children with respiratory ailments, outlines the risk factors involved and describes referral procedures to children's services. It also presents two case studies of children who had been assessed in the author's emergency department and who required inpatient admission for different types of respiratory illness.
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