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With the development of tertiary treatment system,the higher quality of inter-hospital transport is the most critical factor for the prognosis of the critically ill pediatric patients,especially for pediatric patients whose condition is deteriorating rapidly.Improving the quality,creating the guideline,and establishing the network platform of inter-hospital will provide complete guarantee for inter-hospital transport of critically ill pediatric patients.With the development of information technology,the purpose of this study was to analyze the function of the network platform of inter-hospital transport in Hunan Children′s Hospital.
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Objective To evaluate the mode of referral by response time for inter-hospital transfer of critically ill pediatric patients,and subsequently some measures taken for minimizing the response time in referral process.Methods A total of 9231 patients (≤14 years) transferred from primary hospital were included in a cross-section study.Information about age,sex,referral radius,the seasonal variation for inter-hospital transport of critically ill pediatric patients,time of referral telephone call and response time were collected.All computations were performed using the Statistic Package for Social Sciences for Windows version 18.0.Differences between groups were assessed by x2 tests or Wilcoxon test or Kruskal-Wallis for categorical data.Results Among all critically ill pediatric patients for the inter-hospital transfer,male to female ratio was 2.24:1,and the majority of patients were neonates and infants.Median retrieval mobilization time was 30 min (interquartile range,20-50 min).This study has demonstrated that referral time,age categories,referral radius,different years and seasons were associated with response time.Conclusions With the improvement of technologies and management mechanism,the response time was apparently minimized since the beginning of interhospital transportation.But there is still plenty of room for shortening rsponse time compared with advanced Westem countries.
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Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the importance of the interhospital transport of critically ill pediatric patients by analyzing the epidemic characteristics of pediatric patients transported from 2009 to 2012.Methods Nine thousand two hundred and thirty-one referral patients from January 2009 to June 2012 were evaluated by a cross-section study.Epidemiological data such as sex,age,seasons,and referral radius were collected.Results Among all the interhospital transport of critically ill pediatric patients,male to female ratio was nearly 2.24 to 1 and 87.39％ (8067/9231) patients were neonates and infants.Of all patients,66.32％ (6122/9231) patients were from department of pediatrics,neonatology or gynaecology and obstetrics in referring hospitals.The distribution of referring department among years was statistically significant in referring patients (x2 =227.53,P ＜ 0.000 1).Among the patients,56.88％ (5251/9231) were transported over 150km radius and only 12.18％ (1124/9231) patients in 50 km.52.89％(4882/9231) were transported in spring and winter.The seasonal distribution of interhospital transport of critically ill pediatric patients was statistically significant(x2 =1201.88,P ＜0.000 1).The majority of referral telephones were received between 9 AM to 12 AM.Conclusion With the limitation of equipment and technical measure in primary hospitals,critically ill pediatric patients should be transported to tertiary hospitals.According to the epidemiological characteristics of interhospital transport of critically ill pediatric patients,some measures should be adopted for the timely,safe and effective interhospital transportation.
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Objective To survey on the condition of critically ill children in emergency room (ER) for improving the care for them.Methods Data of 374 critically ill children in emergency intensive care unit (EICU) were recorded in the respects of mode of sending them to ER,rescue during transport,length of stay in ER,blood gas,electrolytes,accuracy of assessing pediatric critical illness score/neonate critical illness score (PCIS/NCIS) and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS),correctness of determining SIRS,sepsis and septic shock.Results Of 374 patients,neonates were 29.9％,and the mean age of children patients not including neonate was 37.4 months.The mean length of ER stay was 4.7 hours (0.42-96 hours).Of 374 patients,those with infection diseases were 47.6％,and the main vehicles for transportation of patient sent to ER were Taxi (38.3％),ambulance (28.4％) and private cars (21.5％).Total fatality was 12.3％ and ER fatality ( 15.6％ ) was higher than in - hospital fatality ( 10.3％,P ＜0.01 ).The mean PCIS/NCIS of 374 patients were 81.92 ± 9.66,and the PCIS/NCIS ≤ 90 accounted for 81％.Of assessed GCSs of 172 patients,GCS≤8,GCS 9-12 and GCS 13-15 accounted for 35.5％,21.5％ and 43.0％ respectively,and fatalities were 26.23％,10.81％ and 5.41％ correspondingly (P ＜0.01 ).The PCIS values of GCS≤8 and GCS 9-12 patients were lower than those of GCS 13-15 patients (P ＜ 0.01 ).There was no significant difference in PCIS between GCS≤8 and GCS 9-12 ( P ＞ 0.05 ).PCIS and GCS were positively correlated (r=0.454,P=0.01).Of374 patients,41.7％ had SIRS,and 25.7％ had sepsis.Of 262 children not including neonates,43.5％ had shock,and 61.4％ of these shock children were septic shock.In 374 patients,those with hyponatremia accounted for 37.2％,and those with hyperkaliemia accounted for 22.0％.The rate of hypoglycemia found in neonates was 20.91％ and rate of hyperglycemia occurred in neonates was 29.1％.The rate of hypoglycemia found in children patients was 9％ and hyperglycemia was 66.7％.Patients with pH ＜ 7.35 accounted for 67.8％ and those with pH ＜ 7.2 were 33.1％.Conclusions The majority of children patients in pediatric ER were neonates and infants.The length of ER stay was short with mean value of 4.7 hours (0.42-96 hours).ER fatality was higher than in - hospital fatality,suggesting the critically ill children patients should be admitted as early as possible.The rate of using ambulance was only 28.4％.The Emergency Medical Service (EMS) should be improved to enhance the public sense of the EMS available.PCIS/NCIS can be used in ER for assessing the conditions and prognosis of critically ill children.GCS ≤8 and GCS 8-12 patients accounted for 57％ with majority of nontrauma brain injury.The values of PCIS in GCS≤8 and GCS 9-12 patients were much lower than those in GCS 13-15 patients.Patients with GCS ＜ 13 might be in critical settings.Majority of shock patients were septic shock (61.4％).Hyponatremia,hyperkalemia,hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia often occurred in critically ill pediatric patients and hypoglycemia not excepted in the neonates should have attention paid to.The main factor of acid -base balance disorder in critically ill children was acidosis (67.8％).