Chest pain attendances to a Paediatric Emergency Department pre- and post-COVID-19 vaccination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Introduction of the mRNA vaccination for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been associated with an increase in cases of peri/myocarditis. In our retrospective cross-sectional study, we aim to (I) describe paediatric chest pain attendance, and (II) study resource utilisation in the Emergency Department (ED) of KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), stratified by pre-pandemic, during the pandemic pre- and post-COVID vaccination introduction in adolescents.

Methods

We reviewed records of adolescents aged 12 to 18 years old who presented to our ED with the triage complaint of chest pain between 1 January 2019 to 31 January 2022, and determined the attendance rates, aetiologies and resource utilisation during the above time periods.

Results

There were 2

SUBMITTER: Tan JZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730957 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature