Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?

We aimed to investigate the out-of-hospital mortality, and the actual prevalence of COVID-19 in children requiring paediatric emergency department (ED) care for infectious symptoms. There were four emergency medical services (EMS) responses concerning children (age 0–15 years) leading to death on-sc...

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Autores principales: Harve-Rytsälä, Heini, Puhakka, Laura, Kuisma, Markku, Kuitunen, Mikael, Oulasvirta, Jelena, Salmi, Heli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000763
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author Harve-Rytsälä, Heini
Puhakka, Laura
Kuisma, Markku
Kuitunen, Mikael
Oulasvirta, Jelena
Salmi, Heli
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description We aimed to investigate the out-of-hospital mortality, and the actual prevalence of COVID-19 in children requiring paediatric emergency department (ED) care for infectious symptoms. There were four emergency medical services (EMS) responses concerning children (age 0–15 years) leading to death on-scene in 2 months during the pandemic, and eight during the previous 12 months in the Helsinki University Hospital area, although the number of EMS missions decreased by 18%. The prevalence of COVID-19 in children contacting a paediatric ED for any infectious symptoms during the epidemic peak was only 2.7%.
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spelling pubmed-74301822020-08-17 Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage? Harve-Rytsälä, Heini Puhakka, Laura Kuisma, Markku Kuitunen, Mikael Oulasvirta, Jelena Salmi, Heli BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter We aimed to investigate the out-of-hospital mortality, and the actual prevalence of COVID-19 in children requiring paediatric emergency department (ED) care for infectious symptoms. There were four emergency medical services (EMS) responses concerning children (age 0–15 years) leading to death on-scene in 2 months during the pandemic, and eight during the previous 12 months in the Helsinki University Hospital area, although the number of EMS missions decreased by 18%. The prevalence of COVID-19 in children contacting a paediatric ED for any infectious symptoms during the epidemic peak was only 2.7%. BMJ Publishing Group 2020-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7430182/ /pubmed/34192172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000763 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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Puhakka, Laura
Kuisma, Markku
Kuitunen, Mikael
Oulasvirta, Jelena
Salmi, Heli
Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
title Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
title_full Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
title_fullStr Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
title_full_unstemmed Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
title_short Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
title_sort out-of-hospital deaths among children during covid-19 pandemic: indicator of collateral damage?
topic Original Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7430182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192172
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000763
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