Articles: emergency-services.
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Pediatric emergency care · May 2024
Reliability and Accuracy of the Pediatric Swiss Emergency Triage Scale-the SETSped Study.
The Swiss Emergency Triage Scale (SETS) is an adult triage tool used in several emergency departments. It has been recently adapted to the pediatric population but, before advocating for its use, performance assessment of this tool is needed. ⋯ This simulator-based study showed that the SETS is reliable and accurate among a pediatric population. Future research is needed to confirm these results, compare this triage scale head-to-head with other recognized international tools, and study the SETSped in real-life setting.
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Pediatric emergency care · May 2024
Outcome of Emergency Blood Transfusion in Children Seen at a Tertiary Children's Hospital in Freetown: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study.
This study sought to describe the prevalence and clinical outcome after emergency blood transfusion among children presenting with severe anemia in a tertiary children's hospital in Sierra Leone. ⋯ The study suggests that emergency blood transfusion in children with severe anemia may improve in-hospital survival.
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Regular users of the emergency department (ED) include both patients who could be better served in lower-acuity settings and those with high-severity conditions. ED use decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but patterns among regular ED users are unknown. To determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this population, we examined quarterly postpandemic ED utilization among prepandemic regular ED users. Key subgroups included prepandemic ED users with regular visits for (1) low-severity conditions and (2) high-severity conditions. ⋯ Initial reductions among regular high-severity ED users raise concern for harm from delayed or missed care but did not result in increased high-severity visits later. Nonsustained declines among regular low-severity ED users suggest barriers to and opportunities for redirecting nonurgent ED use to lower-acuity settings.
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Pediatric emergency care · May 2024
Factors Influencing Parental Willingness to Consent to a Survey Study for Patients in the Pediatric Emergency Department.
To identify factors that impact parental willingness to consent to research studies conducted for their children during visits to pediatric emergency departments (EDs). ⋯ A high proportion of parents consented to their child participating in research in our ED with previous child participation in research being associated with lower odds of parental consent even when adjusted for other factors. Our findings may inform future research practices and studies investigating parental perceptions and motivations surrounding research studies.