A multicentre, randomised intervention study of the Paediatric Early Warning Score: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients' evolving critical illness can be predicted and prevented. However, failure to identify the signs of critical illness and subsequent lack of appropriate action for patients developing acute and critical illness remain a problem. Challenges in assessing whether a child is critically ill may be due to children's often uncharacteristic symptoms of serious illness. Children may seem relatively unaffected until shortly before circulatory and respiratory failure and cardiac arrest. The Bedside Paediatric Early Warning Score has been validated in a large multinational study and is used in two regions in Denmark. However, healthcare professionals experience difficulties in relation to measuring blood pressure and to the lack of assessment of children's level of consciou

SUBMITTER: Jensen CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465452 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature