BACKGROUND There is an absence of data describing pediatric patients who visit Emergency Department (ED) in Thailand. Therefore, this report creates a profile of pediatric emergency room visit at a university hospital in Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD The retrospective data of the pediatric patient aged less than 15 years that visited ED at Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Th...

BACKGROUND Infants born with a single cardiac ventricle require a 3-stage surgical palliation performed during the first few years of life for long-term survival. We aimed to determine the extent to which the emergency department services were used between the second and third surgical stages. METHODS A retrospective chart review was performed on patients who underwent stage II palliation at ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to characterize the effect of temperature on emergency department visits for asthma and modification of this association by season. This association is of interest in its own right, and also important to understand because temperature may be an important confounder in analyses of associations between other environmental exposures and asthma. For example...

Johannes Frey [email protected], Sebastian Hellmann [email protected] Knowledge Integration and Linked Data Technologies (AKSW/KILT) research group Leipzig University & Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI), Leipzig, Germany. PREFIX dbo: SELECT (count(distinct ?company) as ?c) WHERE { #!reif (?id2,?company,dbo:locationCountry,<|co...

PURPOSE Seasonal variations in asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits have long been recognized. This study aimed to investigate the seasonal patterns of asthma in children and adolescents who presented at emergency departments in Korea. METHODS We analyzed the National Emergency Department Information System records from 117 emergency departments in Korea that compri...