Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal

ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2018 June 12 Age group characteristics of children who visited the emergency department with acute poisoning by ingestion
Purpose: To investigate the age group characteristics of children who visited the emergency department with acute poisoning by ingestion. Methods: We reviewed children under 19 years who visited the emergency department for acute poisoning by ingestion from 2012 to 2017. The ch...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2018 May 21 An analysis of caregivers’ preference regarding fever management in the emergency department
Purpose: To investigate caregivers’ preference regarding fever management in the emergency department. Methods: Between July 2011 and June 2014, we surveyed the preference in fever management by caregivers of febrile children aged 7 years or younger who visited the emergency d...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2018 June 28 Correlation between the occurrence of acute gastroenteritis in children and regional temperature at a tertiary hospital emergency department in Korea
Purpose: Several studies have investigated the association between acute gastroenteritis (AGE) and regional temperatures. We aimed to investigate the correlation between the occurrence of AGE and regional temperature in Korean children. Methods: We reviewed the clinical characte...

CASE REPORT 2018 June 1 Moyamoya disease in a 3-year-old boy presenting with a focal motor seizure provoked by hyperventilation
A previously healthy, 3-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with an afebrile focal motor seizure. He was found crying and having a seizure 30 minutes earlier. During this seizure, he was jerking his head and right extremities. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging...