Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Dec 2014
Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits During a Full Moon.
This study aimed to verify the hypothesis that the lunar cycle influences the number of pediatric psychiatric emergency department (ED) visits. ⋯ Our study's results are in agreement with those involving adult patients. The full moon does not affect psychiatric visits in a children's hospital.
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Syncope is one of the common presenting complaints in the pediatric emergency department. The evaluation may begin with consideration of the most common causes. ⋯ High suspicion of these disorders in the evaluation, and appropriate referral to a cardiologist may prevent sudden deaths in these patients. Here, we report 2 children with arrhythmogenic causes of syncope.