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Filter by:The Emergency Department (ED) can be stressful and traumatic, especially for children and young people, and the clinical environment can be a frightening, unfamiliar space, which adds to an already anxious experience. Musicians from Cascade Music, who have an established track record of working with the Paediatric ED, will provide recruited participants in the experimental arm with high-quality calming, distracting music during selected procedures. A wide range of music will be used, ranging from nursery rhymes to classical to pop tunes, to engage with and comfort children, taking their attention away from their immediate pain or distress. Pain scores throughout the procedure will be self-assessed by patients (if old enough to use a self assessment tool i.e. 3 years and above) as well as observed by a Research Nurse. Qualitative data on distress and the experiences of patients, families and staff will also be collected via a questionnaire. Participants recruited to the control arm will complete the same measures but receive no live music. This project is underpinned by three areas of need: 1. Despite there being a wide breadth of clinical studies that have used music within various healthcare settings, one area that has been almost completely unexplored is the Paediatric Emergency Department (PED). Alder Hey Children's Hospital (AHCH), as a world leader in research, is ideally situated to conduct this preliminary research. 2. By 2020 AHCH plans to be a world class, child-focused centre of research, innovation and education expertise to improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people. Supporting patients through stressful and invasive procedures is crucial. Inspired by the patients and families that we care for, this research fits well with the AHCH vision, demonstrating an innovative and evidence-informed approach to enhancing practice. 3. The University of Liverpool's impact intensive approach to research is a key strength. This study is designed to have a positive immediate impact on the children and young people participating and those undergoing interventional procedures in the future, helping to enhance patient experience of the ED.
Rare diseases (affecting less than one in 2,000 people) are a major public health issue. There are about 8,000 rare diseases and they affect more than 3 million people in France. Most of these diseases are diagnosed in children, and they are responsible for 10% of deaths before the age of 5. Up to 80% of these diseases are believed to be of genetic origin. New generation high throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies, which allow the study of an individual's entire genome, have emerged in recent years as a tool of choice for the study of rare diseases. Our team was the first in France to demonstrate the value of exome sequencing (ES: all coding regions (exons), representing 1% of the total genome size) in the diagnosis of severe diseases in pediatric patients, developmental anomalies and intellectual disability. Although it represents a significant advance in the diagnosis of genetic diseases, ES provides a contributing result in only about 30% of cases in patients with no obvious clinical diagnosis and with normal CGH-array. Sequencing the entire genome (GS) promises to improve the ability to study the causes of genetic diseases, with an expected diagnostic rate of 50 to 60% through the concomitant identification of point variations, CNVs and structural variations. While some international teams have already implemented GS in the diagnosis of rare diseases, only two teams report the use of trio GS in emergency situations in the neonatal period, with a low yield for first-line diagnostic use (31 and 42% respectively). It is therefore essential that these preliminary results be compared with other studies before considering the deployment of GS in diagnostic, early detection or rapidly evolving emergency situations, such as neonatal resuscitation or pediatric neurological distress.
Medication reconciliation has proven its efficiency in improving patients' care, especially for emergency patients. This study aimed to identify risk factors of unintended medication discrepancies (UMD) in an emergency department. Secondary objectives were to identify the number and type of UMD, correction rate of UMD and the impact of emergency department organisation on UMD.
This is a cohort study based on a large sample (> 600 000) of emergency department (ED) visits from two university hospital EDs. Information on incident disease after discharge from the ED will be collected through linkage to Swedish national in-patient register and cause of death register. The importance of blood pressure measured at the ED for incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease during long term follow up will be studied by Cox-regression analysis
Type 2 myocardial infarction has been reported in the Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction for more than 10 years and most studies resulted in a high mortality rate. However, little to nothing is known for both criteria to define myocardial oxygenation imbalance threshold and the outcome of these patients presenting with myocardial oxygenation imbalance. The aim of this study is to compare the outcome at 6 months for patients admitted in the emergency department with a myocardial oxygenation imbalance, depending on whether a type 2 myocardial infarction occured or not.
Comparison of two different pediatric emergency rulers for length-based body weight estimation in pediatric emergencies. Primary outcome is the time needed to identify four defined parameters from the pediatric emergency rulers during a low-fidelity pediatric emergency scenario (cardiac arrest). Secondary outcome is the correctness of the identified parameters and the percentage deviation from the correct value.
Analysis of electronic files of patients presenting to the emergency department to improve current practice
This is an observational cohort study that will assess barriers influencing access to emergency pregnancy, obstetrical and neonatal care.
The goal of this study is to evaluate the prognostic values of non-invasive hemodynamic parameteres in relation to 30-day mortality and/or acute deterioration in patients who are admitted acutely to the department of emergency medicine or cardiology.
The main objective of the trial is to evaluate the effect of point-of-care testing of respiratory pathogens at a pediatric emergency room on the antibiotic consumption and hospital admissions in acutely ill children.