Setting up and running a paediatric emergency department in a hospital in Malawi: 15 years on

Paediatric emergency care is not recognised as a specialty in many countries in Africa but is being practised increasingly. Setting up a paediatric emergency care unit takes time and often involves trial and error. Here we describe the start of the paediatric emergency department in Blantyre, Malawi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Molyneux, Elizabeth M, Langton, Josephine, Njiram’madzi, Jenala, Robertson, Ann M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
Materias:
Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842997/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29637093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2017-000014
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Sumario:Paediatric emergency care is not recognised as a specialty in many countries in Africa but is being practised increasingly. Setting up a paediatric emergency care unit takes time and often involves trial and error. Here we describe the start of the paediatric emergency department in Blantyre, Malawi, a low-income country and how it has continued to evolve over 15 years, in the hope that our experience will inform and assist others who are already developing their own emergency unit or wishing to do so.

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