Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 1998
Parental perception of the adequacy of pain control in their child after discharge from the emergency department.
To determine how well the pain of pediatric patients who are discharged from our emergency department (ED) is managed. ⋯ Our pediatric pain management study showed high analgesic use and high parental satisfaction. Lectures and bedside education may be a way to improve pain management in pediatric patients.
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Pediatric emergency care · Aug 1998
Childhood hypoglycemia in an urban emergency department: epidemiology and a diagnostic approach to the problem.
To 1) determine the prevalence of hypoglycemia in childhood in a pediatric emergency department (ED), 2) determine epidemiology of idiopathic ketotic hypoglycemia (IKH), 3) determine diagnostic yield of the workup of hypoglycemia, and 4) review a diagnostic approach to hypoglycemia. ⋯ IKH is the most common cause of hypoglycemia in children beyond the infancy period. In its typical presentation (previously healthy one- to five-year-old, with normal growth and development, who presents with a first episode of symptomatic fasting hypoglycemia and appropriate degree of ketonuria, without hepatomegaly, and with resolution of symptoms on administration of glucose), an extensive and overzealous workup for endocrinopathy or inborn error of metabolism is not necessary.