TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Paediatric emergencies during the CoViD-19 pandemic
JO  - Global pediatric health
A1  - Lázaro Carreño, María Isabel
A1  - Barrés Fernández, Ana
A1  - Quintero García, Diannet
A1  - Ferrer Ferrer, Jesús
A1  - Fernández González, Ignacio
A1  - Monfort Belenguer, Lucia
A1  - Iniesta González, Sergio
A1  - Moreno Palomino, Angela
A1  - Sahuquillo, Silvia Carbonell
A1  - Cuevas, Francisco José Sebastián
SP  - e2333794X21989528
EP  - e2333794X21989528
VL  - 8
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 2333-794X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794X21989528
ID  - ref1
ER  -