The association between prehospital vital signs of children and their critical clinical outcomes at hospitals.

ABSTRACT: Vital signs are important for patient assessment, but little is known about interpreting those of children in prehospital settings. We conducted an observational study to investigate the association between prehospital vital signs of children and their clinical outcomes in hospitals. We plotted the data of patients with critical outcomes on published reference ranges, such as those of healthy children to evaluate the clinical relevance. Of the 18,493 children screened, 4477 transported to tertiary hospitals were included in the analysis. The outcomes 12 h after being transported to a tertiary hospital were as follows: deceased, 41; hospitalization with critical deterioration events, 65; hospitalization without critical deterioration events, 1086; returned home, 3090; and unknown, 195. The

SUBMITTER: Kurosawa H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8956615 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature