Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie
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Multicenter Study
[Paediatricians involvement in paediatric emergency care. A study in hospitals and paediatricians offices in the North of France].
Paediatrician involvement in paediatric emergency care is often considered insufficient. ⋯ Our findings prove paediatrician involvement in paediatric emergency care, in paediatrician offices and in hospital. This study points out the complementarity and insufficiencies of these different services.
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The current issue of paediatric emergency care is to decrease the length of stay of the child and his/her family in the emergency department while improving health care quality. Up to now, the paediatric emergency department's triage nurses of the children's Timone hospital apply two EMLA patches when they think that a blood test will be ordered by the medical doctor in order to decrease the waiting time between the clinical exam and the blood test. ⋯ The literature study shows that some medical criteria allow to improve this agreement rate. The assessment of blood test necessity have to be carried on and needs further studies in order to precise the most discriminant medical criteria.