Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic : indicator of collateral damage?
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Harve-Rytsälä , H M , Puhakka , L V , Kuisma , M , Kuitunen , M , Oulasvirta , J & Salmi , H 2020 , ' Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic : indicator of collateral damage? ' , BMJ Paediatrics Open , vol. 4 , no. 1 , e000763 . https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000763
| Title: | Out-of-hospital deaths among children during COVID-19 pandemic : indicator of collateral damage? |
| Author: | Harve-Rytsälä, Heini M; Puhakka, Laura V; Kuisma, Markku; Kuitunen, Mikael; Oulasvirta, Jelena; Salmi, Heli |
| Contributor organization: | HUS Emergency Medicine and Services Anestesiologian yksikkö Department of Diagnostics and Therapeutics Faculty of Medicine HUS Children and Adolescents Children's Hospital Clinicum |
| Date: | 2020-08 |
| Language: | eng |
| Number of pages: | 2 |
| Belongs to series: | BMJ Paediatrics Open |
| ISSN: | 2399-9772 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000763 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/328165 |
| Abstract: | 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%. |
| Subject: | 3123 Gynaecology and paediatrics |
| Peer reviewed: | No |
| Rights: | cc_by_nc |
| Usage restriction: | openAccess |
| Self-archived version: | publishedVersion |
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