Physician staffed emergency medical service for children: a retrospective population-based registry cohort study in Odense region, Southern Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study is to determine diagnostic patterns in the prehospital paediatric population, age distribution, the level of monitoring and the treatment initiated in the prehospital paediatric case. Hypothesis was that advanced prehospital interventions are rare in the paediatric patient population.

Setting

We performed a retrospective population-based registry cohort study of children attended by a physician-staffed emergency medical service (EMS) unit (P-EMS), in the Odense area of Denmark during a 10-year study period.

Participants

We screened 44 882 EMS contacts and included 5043 children. Patient characteristics, monitoring and interventions performed by the P-EMS crews were determined.

Results

We found that paediatric patients were a min

SUBMITTER: Overgaard MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature