Clinical application of early warning scoring on children in neurology department / 实用医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the application of pediatric early warning score (PEWS) in neurology department.Methods The clinical data and PEWS of 1,158 children with neurologic diseases (764 febrile seizures,259 viral encephalitis and 135 bacterial meningitis) admitted into neurology department from August 2013 to November 2016 were analyzed retrospectively.PEWS was compared among the three different diseases.According to the disease severity,cases were categorized into no-monitor-required group (n =996,697 febrile seizures,203 viral encephalitis and 96 bacterial meningitis),monitor-required group (n =138,67 febrile seizures,41 viral encephalitis and 30 bacterial meningitis) and PICU group (n =24,0 febrile seizures,15 viral encephalitis and 9 bacterial meningitis).PEWS was assessed at admission in both no-monitor-required group and monitorrequired group.PEWS was recorded 12 hours before PICU transfer in PICU group.Then PEWS was compared among all groups in different diseases respectively.Results The median (minimum ～ maximum) of PEWS in febrile seizures,viral encephalitis and bacterial meningitis was 0 (0 ～ 3),2(0 ～ 8) and 2(0 ～ 8),respectively and there was significant difference among three diseases (P ＜ 0.01).No patient of febrile seizures was transferred to PICU.PEWS of febrile seizures in monitor-required group was higher than that in no-monitor-required group (P ＜ 0.01).For both viral encephalitis and bacterial meningitis,PEWS in monitor-required group was higher than that in no-monitorrequired group,and the score in PICU group was higher than that in monitor-required group.The difference was significant (P ＜ 0.01).Conclusion PEWS is effective for the assessment of illness severity of hospitalized children in neurology department,and can be used for the prediction PICU transfer as an excellent screening tool.