@article{ref1,
title="Paediatric emergencies during the CoViD-19 pandemic",
journal="Global pediatric health",
year="2021",
author="Lázaro Carreño, María Isabel and Barrés Fernández, Ana and Quintero García, Diannet and Ferrer Ferrer, Jesús and Fernández González, Ignacio and Monfort Belenguer, Lucia and Iniesta González, Sergio and Moreno Palomino, Angela and Sahuquillo, Silvia Carbonell and Cuevas, Francisco José Sebastián",
volume="8",
number="",
pages="e2333794X21989528-e2333794X21989528",
abstract="The state of alarm decreed by the Spanish Government, due to the Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, has demanded the lockdown of children and has conditioned a new organization of the Emergency Departments (ED). A pre-triage station and 2 independent circuits were established: suspected COVID-19 and not suspected COVID-19. The ED visits decreased 84,5% from pre-alarm with no increase in the level of urgencies. During the alarm state, 40.97% of the children were classified as suspected COVID-19. Fever and respiratory symptoms, used as discriminators, generated 2 groups of patients with different characteristics. Although the interruption of sports activities and isolation of children at home contributed to the decrease in emergencies, it was also probably conditioned by adults' fear of contagion, who avoided going to the hospital in situations that would never have really required ED and resolved themselves in primary care or spontaneously.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2333-794X",
doi="10.1177/2333794X21989528",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X21989528"
}