scholarly journals Low Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Symptomatic Patients Attending a Pediatric Emergency Department

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Zurl ◽  
Ernst Eber ◽  
Anna Siegl ◽  
Sabine Loeffler ◽  
Evelyn Stelzl ◽  
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Children and adolescents seem to be at lower risk of developing clinical symptoms of COVID-19. We analyzed the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections among 3,605 symptomatic children and adolescents at 4,402 outpatient visits presenting to a pediatric emergency department. In a total of 1,105 (32.6%) episodes, the patients fulfilled clinical case definitions for SARS-CoV-2 infection and were tested by nucleic acid testing. A SARS-CoV-2 infection was diagnosed in 10/1,100 episodes (0.3% of analyzed episodes, 0.91% of validly tested patients). Symptoms at presentation did not differ between patients with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection, apart from the frequency of measured temperature ≥37.5°C at presentation. Three percent of analyzed children reported disturbances of olfactory or gustatory senses, but none of them was infected with SARS-CoV-2. The rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections among symptomatic children and adolescents was low and SARS-CoV-2 infections could not reliably be differentiated from other infections without nucleic acid testing.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-826
Author(s):  
Charles J. Graham ◽  
Rhonda Dick ◽  
Vaughn I. Rickert ◽  
Robert Glenn

Objective. To determine whether left-handedness is a risk factor for unintentional injury among children and adolescents. Design. Case-control study. Setting. Pediatric emergency department of Arkansas Children's Hospital. Patients. 265 patients sustaining unintentional trauma aged 6 to 18 years and 494 control patients who did not have trauma were given a questionnaire to determine handedness, past unintentional injury, and parental perception of injury proneness. Results. The frequency of left-handedness in the trauma group (18.1%) was significantly greater than frequency of 10.5% in the control group (P < .003, odds ratio = 1.80, 95% confidence interval 1.20 to 2.72). Multivariate analysis revealed handedness as the only significant vanable between trauma and control (P < .04). The proportion of left-handers who had been hospitalized previously for injury treatment (20.0%) was larger than the proportion of right-handers, (12.0%) (P < .026, odds ratio = 1.84, 95% confidence interval 1.03 to 3.27). More parents of left-handens rated their child as "more clumsy than average' than parents of right-handens (26.0% vs 15.2%, P < .007). Conclusions. Left-handedness appears to be a risk factor for unintentional injury in children and adolescents in a pediatric emergency department population.


2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zorash Montano ◽  
Neda Safvati ◽  
Angela Li ◽  
Ilene Claudius ◽  
Jeffrey I. Gold

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 137 (Supplement 3) ◽  
pp. 276A-276A
Author(s):  
Kaynan Doctor ◽  
Kristen Breslin ◽  
Melissa M. Tavarez ◽  
Deena Berkowitz ◽  
James M. Chamberlain

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