How Much Do Parents Know About Pain in Their Children?

Objectives: Adequate pain control is essential to the comprehensive management of pediatric patients within the emergency department.The aim of this study is to evaluate parents' knowledge about pain in the pediatric population patient and secondarily describe erroneous concepts that can affect a correct children's pain management.

Methods: A single-center descriptive study of cross-sectional surveys was performed between October and December 2018, with a previously validated ad hoc and anonymous questionnaire consisting of 9 items.

Pain Prevalence Among Children Visiting Pediatric Emergency Departments.

Objectives: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence, characteristics, and intensity of children's pain in emergency departments. The secondary purpose was to evaluate the interobserver agreement regarding the level of pain perceived by professionals, parents, and children.

Methods: This was a multicenter, survey-based research study on 0- to 18-year-old patients visiting 1 of the 15 hospitals that form part of the Working Group on Analgesia and Sedation of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Emergency Medicine between October and December 2018.

Analysis of the validity of the five-level TRIPED-GM paediatric triage system.

Objective: To determine the validity of the five-level TRIPED-GM pediatric triage system.

Methods: Unicentric, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study of 485 patients aged 0-16 years in the pediatric emergency department of the HGU Gregorio Marañon. Two measures of validity were used: a direct measure calculated by the sensitivity and specificity obtained based on the number of infratriages and overtriages of the priorities given by classification nurses compared with a panel of experts and another indirect measure by the length of stay, the resources consumed and the percentage of income for each priority level.

Effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve nurses' knowledge on pediatric nasogastric intubation.

Objetive: To establish the effectiveness of an educational intervention to improve nurses' knowledge on pediatric nasogastric intubation.

Methods: Multicenter, quasi-experimental, pre- and post-test study using a theoretical educational intervention based on bibliographic evidence and assessment of its effectiveness after 4 months.

Results: Delivered questionnaires: 1019.

[Efficacy, safety and satisfaction of sedation-analgesia in Spanish emergency departments].

Objectives: To offer analgesia and sedation should be a priority in paediatric emergency departments. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness and safety of the sedation-analgesia procedure, as well as the satisfaction of the doctors, patients and parents.

Methods: A multicentre, observational, and prospective analytical study was conducted on the sedation-analgesia procedure performed on children younger than 18 years old in 18 paediatric emergency departments in Spain from February 2015 until January 2016.

The Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Among Parents.

Purpose: To determine the level of knowledge of first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) among the parents of children who attended our Pediatric Emergency Department and to identify the factors that affect this knowledge.

Design And Methods: Descriptive, transversal study. A questionnaire was distributed anonymously among parents to collect data about their previous CPR training, knowledge and experience.

Assessment of orofacial pain management in a pediatric emergency department and at home after discharge.

Introduction: An inadequate pain management is common in the emergency department. Our objective was to analyze pain management among children with an orofacial infection or trauma in the emergency department and to assess compliance and satisfaction with analgesia prescribed at discharge.

Population And Methods: Cross-sectional, observational and analytical study in children attending the emergency department for an orofacial infection or trauma over 2 months.

[Knowledge of nurses about medication doses at pediatric urgency departament].

Unlabelled: Errors in drug administration are the second cause of errors in hospitalized patients. Children are a high risk group. Besides, pressure in care interventions at emergency department leads to increase incidence errors.

[NASO-OROGASTRIC TUBE IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS. REVIEW OF METHODS OF CONFIRMATION OF PLACEMENT].

Nasogastric tube (NGT) placement is a frequent procedure in the paediatric population. Nasogastric and orogastric tubes are commonly used in hospitalized children, in the paediatric emergency departments and in critical care departments. They have diagnostic, therapeutic, descompression or evacuation of gastric aspirates objectives.