{"title":"Retraction notice: Necrotizing fasciitis due to late-onset group B streptococcal bacteremia in a 2-month-old girl","authors":"","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00570.r1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00570.r1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126907680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Ko, Hyun Jung Lee, Hyun Joon Kim, T. Shin, Dong Wook Lee, H. Moon, D. Jeong
{"title":"Current status of imaging studies and application of clinical decision rules for pediatric blunt cervical spine injury","authors":"K. Ko, Hyun Jung Lee, Hyun Joon Kim, T. Shin, Dong Wook Lee, H. Moon, D. Jeong","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122619884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hyenki Kim, J. Lim, J. Jeon, Ji Hye Kim, I. Hwang, Y. Yi
{"title":"Listeria meningitis with rapid progression of hydrocephalus: a case of a 16 month old girl with febrile status epilepticus as the first symptom","authors":"Hyenki Kim, J. Lim, J. Jeon, Ji Hye Kim, I. Hwang, Y. Yi","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00640","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134404169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical features of children with drug poisoning in a single emergency department in Goyang, Korea","authors":"J. Park","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00619","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Pediatric drug poisoning is a frequent reason for emergency department (ED) visits. Considering the increasing number of mental illnesses in adolescents, it has become a serious public health problem. We aimed to investigate the drug poisoning in the ED.Methods: We retrospectively analyzed children aged 1-17 years with diagnostic codes related to drug poisoning who visited the ED from January 1, 2010 through October 7, 2022. Exclusion criteria were non-pharmaceutical poisoning, insufficient data, and poisoning via respiratory, dermal or ocular route. Baseline characteristics, clinical manifestations, and outcomes of drug poisoning were analyzed in the study population, according to intention of poisoning and drug category.Results: A total of 197 cases of 161 children were analyzed. Compared with non-intentional poisoning, intentional poisoning was associated a higher age, a longer time from ingestion to visit, and higher proportions of girls, antipyretics/analgesics or psychotropic drugs, symptoms related to the gastrointestinal, neurologic or cardiopulmonary systems (P = 0.034), psychiatric comorbidity, multiple drug ingestion, suicide attempt, decontamination (P = 0.017), the use of antidote, history of drug poisoning, and hospitalization (P = 0.004; all other Ps < 0.001). Acetaminophen, a representative of antipyretics/analgesics, was associated with a longer time from ingestion to visit and higher proportions of girls (P = 0.004), the presence of initial gastrointestinal symptoms, suicide attempt (P = 0.001), the use of antidote, and hospitalization (all other Ps < 0.001). Psychotropic drug was associated with higher proportions of psychiatric comorbidity (P < 0.001) and multiple drug ingestion (P = 0.012).Conclusion: This study will enable pediatricians or emergency physicians to obtain an overview of the management of drug poisoning in EDs.","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115360453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriana Cuenca, Aura Coy, N. Gutiérrez, Maria P Santos, Juan David Bustos, A. M. Morales, Alejandra Marín
{"title":"Change in pediatric trauma-related visits in a tertiary hospital in Colombia during coronavirus disease 2019 lockdown","authors":"Adriana Cuenca, Aura Coy, N. Gutiérrez, Maria P Santos, Juan David Bustos, A. M. Morales, Alejandra Marín","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00563","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Colombian government declared a lockdown, forcing children to stay at home. The authors aimed to analyze the change in the pattern of trauma-related visits during the lockdown.Methods: We carried out a retrospective descriptive study on injured children aged 17 years or younger who visited the emergency department of a tertiary pediatric hospital in Bogotá, Colombia from March 15 through May 15, 2019 (control period) and the same period in 2020 (lockdown period). Between the 2 periods, baseline characteristics and injury profiles were compared.Results: Among the study population (n = 1,485), 1,122 and 363 children visited the emergency department during the control and lockdown periods, respectively. In the midst of 73.9% decrease in numbers of overall visits between the 2 periods, a 67.6% decrease was noted in number of trauma-related visits. Regarding the proportions, trauma-related visits increased from 7.9% to 9.8%. During the lockdown, increases occurred in the proportions of the following variables: children younger than 5 years (25.5% to 50.7%; P < 0.001), mechanisms other than blunt, minor fall or traffic accident (e.g., bite, 3.9% to 6.6%; P = 0.032), child abuse (1.2% to 4.1%; P = 0.003), hospitalization (4.6% to 35.8%; P < 0.001), open wound (21.1% to 36.9%; P < 0.001), the use of computed tomography (6.3% to 9.9%; P < 0.001), and abnormal imaging findings (28.8% to 31.7%; P = 0.003).Conclusion: During the lockdown, children with trauma may show an increase in overall severity, and also a higher risk of abusive trauma. This finding indicates a sensible need of educating families in prevention of domestic injury.","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114767655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy direction for the development of pediatric emergency care in Korea","authors":"Eun Young Kim","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124397276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intestinal obstruction caused by acute perforated appendicitis misdiagnosed as Hirschsprung’s disease in a 31-month-old boy","authors":"S. Nam","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"377 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124710400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The pattern of mortality among children hospitalized in the children emergency ward of a single tertiary hospital in Nigeria","authors":"U. Onubogu, B. West, Uju S. Azubogu","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126856714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. J. Kim, Young-Jin Choi, Kyung Yol Lee, Hyo-Jun Jang, J. Moon, Yong Joo Kim, Seung Yang
{"title":"A case of esophageal perforation caused by suicidal caffeine poisoning in a teenager","authors":"S. J. Kim, Young-Jin Choi, Kyung Yol Lee, Hyo-Jun Jang, J. Moon, Yong Joo Kim, Seung Yang","doi":"10.22470/pemj.2022.00591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22470/pemj.2022.00591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151011,"journal":{"name":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal","volume":"65 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120851725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}