Emergency Department Admissions of Children with Chest Pain before and during COVID-19 Pandemic
Riccardo Lubrano,Vanessa Martucci,Alessia Marcellino,Maria Teresa Sanseviero,Alessandro Sinceri,Alessia Testa,Beatrice Frasacco,Pietro Gizzone,Emanuela Del Giudice,Flavia Ventriglia,Silvia Bloise +10 more
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In this paper, the authors compared the number of accesses, causes, and instrumental evaluations of chest pain in children between the pre-COVID19 era and the COVID-19 period and analyzed the assessment performed in children with chest pain.Abstract:
Objectives: We compared the number of accesses, causes, and instrumental evaluations of chest pain in children between the pre-COVID-19 era and the COVID-19 period and analyzed the assessment performed in children with chest pain, highlighting unnecessary examinations. Methods: We enrolled children with chest pain admitted to our emergency department between January 2019 and May 2021. We collected demographic and clinical characteristics and findings on physical examinations, laboratory tests, and diagnostic evaluations. Then, we compared the number of accesses, causes, and instrumental assessments of chest pain between the pre-COVID-19 era and the COVID-19 era. Results: A total of 111 patients enrolled (mean age: 119.8 ± 40.48 months; 62 males). The most frequent cause of chest pain was idiopathic (58.55%); we showed a cardiac origin in 4.5% of the cases. Troponin determination was performed in 107 patients, and the value was high only in one case; chest X-rays in 55 cases and echocardiograms in 25 cases showed pathological findings, respectively, in 10 and 5 cases. Chest pain accesses increased during the COVID-19 era (p < 0.0001), with no differences in the causes of chest pain between the two periods. Conclusions: The increase in accesses for chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that this symptom generates anxiety among parents. Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that the evaluation of chest pain is still extensive, and new chest pain assessment protocols in the pediatric age group are needed.read more
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