Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2016
Reliability of the Abbreviated Westmead Post-traumatic Amnesia Scale in children: Impact of age on test results.
This study aimed to determine the reliability of the Abbreviated Westmead Post-traumatic Amnesia Scale (A-WPTAS) in children by examining the impact of age on A-WPTAS performance. ⋯ The A-WPTAS is reliable for use in children aged 7 years and older, while its use in children aged 6 years and under results in an unsatisfactory high false positive rate, limiting its clinical utility. The adult-level performance of children aged 7 years onwards provides strong support for using the tool in the early management of these children with mild traumatic brain injury in Australian EDs.
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2016
Paediatric critical procedures in the emergency department: Incidence, trends and the physician experience.
To analyse and provide current data surrounding paediatric critical procedures performed in three EDs of a single Victorian health network. ⋯ Critical procedures in children occur infrequently. Clinical exposure in the ED is therefore unreliable as the sole source of experience for critical procedures.