1483 Burton Paediatric Early Warning System Score

Development and initial validation of the Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System score

INTRODUCTION Adverse outcomes following clinical deterioration in children admitted to hospital wards is frequently preventable. Identification of children for referral to critical care experts remains problematic. Our objective was to develop and validate a simple bedside score to quantify severity of illness in hospitalized children. METHODS A case-control design was used to evaluate 11 can...

Enhancing the Early Warning Score System Using Data Confidence

Early Warning Score (EWS) systems are utilized in hospitals by health-care professionals to interpret vital signals of patients. These scores are used to measure and predict amelioration or deterioration of patients' health status to intervene in an appropriate manner when needed. Based on an earlier work presenting an automated Internet-of-Things based EWS system, we propose an architecture to...

Evidence-based paediatric nursing: paediatric early warning systems.

In hospital cardiac arrest are rare events in paediatrics. Most children receive appropriate care without experiencing undetected severe clinical deterioration during hospital admission. Outcomes of paediatric cardiac arrests are however generally poor, with high mortality rates and neurological damage at survival. A review of child mortality in the UK showed that a high proportion of unexpecte...

Early warning system.

Multicentre validation of the bedside paediatric early warning system score: a severity of illness score to detect evolving critical illness in hospitalised children

INTRODUCTION The timely provision of critical care to hospitalised patients at risk for cardiopulmonary arrest is contingent upon identification and referral by frontline providers. Current approaches require improvement. In a single-centre study, we developed the Bedside Paediatric Early Warning System (Bedside PEWS) score to identify patients at risk. The objective of this study was to valida...