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Hot Off the Press: Which Febrile Children With Sickle Cell Disease Need a Chest X‐Ray?
Author(s) -
Morgenstern Justin,
Heitz Corey,
Milne William K.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/acem.13154
Subject(s) - medicine , acute chest syndrome , emergency department , disease , pediatrics , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , sickle cell anemia , psychiatry
This retrospective chart review examined the rate of acute chest syndrome ( ACS ) in febrile children (aged 3 months to 21 years) with sickle cell disease and used recursive partitioning to determine which clinical factors were predictive of a diagnosis of ACS . Over the course of 2 years, 697 children made 1,837 visits to one of two pediatric emergency departments. ACS was diagnosed in 185 (10%) of the visits.