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Report from the front
Not just little adults: preparing a children’s emergency department for COVID-19
  1. Jonathan Adamson1,
  2. Chris Bird1,
  3. Kate Edgworth1,
  4. Stuart Hartshorn1,2,
  5. Kasyap Jamalapuram1,
  6. Anand Kanani1,
  7. Kate Mackay1,
  8. Tina Newton1,
  9. Ben Stanhope1,
  10. Bridget Wilson1
  1. 1 Emergency Department, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  2. 2 Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Chris Bird, Emergency Department, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; christopher.bird2{at}nhs.net

Abstract

COVID-19 presented unique challenges in preparing our stand-alone children’s emergency department for the pandemic and has demonstrated well the paediatric adage, ‘children aren’t little adults’.

  • paediatrics, paediatric emergency medicine
  • infectious diseases, viral

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https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-209904

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    Footnotes

    • Handling editor Edward Carlton

    • Collaborators Paul Franklin and James Allbones, Informatics Department, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

    • Contributors All authors contributed to the changes made in the emergency department during the pandemic, listed in alphabetical order. CB and JA drafted the article.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.