Any positive finding requires immediate admission to resuscitation room | |
A | Airway—blue lips, not breathing, abnormal breathing sounds |
B | Breathing—great effort to breathe, tiring |
C | Circulation—cold hands and prolonged capillary refill time >3 s |
C | Coma—on the AVPU scale—only responding to painful stimulus or unresponsive |
C | Convulsion—evidence of convulsion with emphasis on looking for subtle seizures |
C | Confusion—the restless, hallucinating child |
D | Dehydration—a history of vomiting and/or diarrhoea, and of prolonged skin pinch, sunken eyes and lethargy |
AVPU, A (Alert) V (respond to Voice) P (respond to Painful stimuli) U (Unresponsive).