OK - Quick survey: A&E/ambulance use

[roisin]

Q1: How old are your kids?
Q2a: How many times have you called an ambulance for them?
Q2b: What was the diagnosis?
Q3a: How many times have you been to A&E with kids?
Q3b: What was the diagnosis?

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my sis did the bike thing too and she still has a lovely scar on her top lip (at 20years)

my offspring....

Q1 age?: Not yet 3.
Q2a ambulance?: Twice. 9months-sprung off bed and landed on floor. 10mths-pushed himself and high chair backwards while eating lunch by folding his little legs up and flicking them out-lots of vomit(lunch)
Q2b Diagnosis: Slightly anxious mum,very happy smiley baby.
Q3a A & E?: Twice.today and two weeks ago.Both head injuries. first one Ds was pretending to be Sporticus from Lazy Town and during a flying spin, he banged his head on concrete floor. blood out of nose.
Today chasing girls at nursery,found the smallest piece of ledge in his very safe room to bounce his head off.
Q3b: bumped nose during fall,keep an eye
glued head, very smiley 2-and-three-quarter year old.

6.5 and 1 0

3 times with the now 6 year old
observation only (banged his head hard on the wall); MRI scan (hurt his eye); X-ray (banged his head). All OK.

1: 6 and 4
2: Never
3: 4 times
(a) Dd1 shut finger in door. X-rayed. Not broken, sent home with bandage and lots of stickers!
(b) Dd1 D&V - thought she might be dehydrated. Pronounced OK and sent home.
(c) Dd2 fell over and cut lip open. Needed six stitches done under GA. Stayed in overnight, but sent home the next day. Back a week later to have stitches out.
(d) Dd1 poked dd2 in the eye (accidentally). Half of eye totally bloodshot. Got it checked out at A&E on advice of NHS direct. She could see fine, so left it and it went away of its own accord.

Hmmm... three out of 4 visits required no action to be taken. Do I sound like a time-waster?

Q1: 17 months
Q2a: never
Q2b: n/a
Q3a: 3 times
Q3b: 1.) couldn't breathe properly as a baby, diagnosed with floppy windpipe
2.) very high temp, lethargic, eyes rolling, cold hands and feet. diagnosed as nasty virus
3) hit head on corner of a bedside cabinet and cut it open

1, 8,6 and 2.
twice
suspected meningitis, head injury
approx 6 times
Kept in 4 days with suspected menigitis which turned out to be a virus which effected her heart very scary.
Head injury when dd1 was 1 ran into a concrete column, was sick everywhere then passed out, diagnosis was concussion.
ds1 broke his toe playing cricket.

There was an article in our local paper about a mum who was refused an ambulance (after a 999 call) and put through to NHS direct. She was told a doctor would ring back in an hour, but they didn't. Her son was in severe pain in his stomach. She called a taxi instead. He had appendicitis and had to have an operation. NHS Direct said they followed their procedures.

Since could an ambulance be refused?

Q1: 12, 9, 2.10
Q2a: Never
Q2b: n/a
Q3a: 5
Q3b:
DD1 - twisted ankle, couldn't walk on it after 6hrs (happened at school).
DS - Got his arm trapped between automatic sliding door and window, luckily no broken bones.
DD1 - 1. rash due to allergic reaction to tea tree oil. 2. knocked over by a car. 3. stuck a necklace bead up her nose.

1. 3.4 yrs & 22 mths
2. Never 2b)n/a
3. Never 3b)n/a

Q1: 31yrs, 26yrs, 19yrs, 10yrs.

Q2a: Never

Q2b: N/a

Q3a: Quite a few times.

Q3b: DS1 - At 14mths stitches for head wound when learning to walk. At 4yo old - stitches for head wound sustained on Mat Ward when I had Ds2! At 8yo head wound after walking into a wall. Teenager, broken toe.

Ds2 - Several times for acute asthma attacks.

Dd1 - As a 12yo with ankle injury, no fracture. As a 16yo with a hand injury, no fracture.

Q1: 18 months
Q2a: 3
Q2b: Complicated Febrile Convulsions
Q3a: 7
Q4: Burns, Cuts & Convulsions

1. 7

2. Never 2b n/a 3a Twice 3b A & E twice - first time due to UTI (GP missed it and was subsequently diagnosed on a children's ward). Second time was at the x-ray dept - tendonitis was diagnosed (fell off climbing frame awkwardly at school and twisted his tendon in his right leg).

Q1: How old are your kids? 3.5
Q2a: How many times have you called an ambulance for them? none
Q2b: What was the diagnosis? n/a
Q3a: How many times have you been to A&E with kids? Once
Q3b: What was the diagnosis? Swallowed a coin (although not seen on x-ray)

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Q1 - 10 months

Q2 - None

Q3 - N/A

Q4 - 3

Q5 -
1st time saw out of hours gp, ds had terrible cough which kept making him sick - told it was a virus

2nd time ds was sleeping almost all day and night but very unsettled, developed temperature very fast with D&V. Told to bugger off.

3rd time was day after the 2nd time above - by this time ds was dehydrated and in such pain he was screaming constantly. Admitted to childrens ward and diagnosed with Rotavirus (a form of gastroenteritis). Put on a drip and kept in for 3 days.

Q1: How old are your kids? 5 and 22 months
Q2a: How many times have you called an ambulance for them? once
Q2b: What was the diagnosis? ds had anaphalctic shock (sp)following a bee sting
Q3a: How many times have you been to A&E with kids? twice
Q3b: What was the diagnosis? he sliced his foot on a peice of plastic on a playing field

Kids are 9 and 3.
Neither has been in an ambulance or to A&E.
We are very fortunate.

1. 5 and 2
2. never
3. N/A
4. about 5
5. head cut needs glue - febrile convulsion - pneumonia

I've been in an ambulance twice though

Q1: ds 2.9yrs and dd 7mths
Q2a:never
Q3a: DS never dd about 7 times
Q3b:dd as been for reflux/feeding problems[sent by gp] sunburn[dont ask] and about 5 times for breathing problems [bronchilitis,viral probs,asthma etc] been admitted twice for a week.

20 months
Not - got taken in one a few weeks ago as a transfer.
Burns
Twice
1st Jaundice, 2nd Burns from tea.

1: 3 and 6
2a: 0
2b: na
3a: 4
3b: mild jaundice
dislocated bone in elbow
look out for signs of concusion
possible bladder infection

1 5 and 2
2a never but nursery called one for DS once
2b he had a granuloma on his face that would bleed heavily and on this occasion they couldn't stem the flow of blood
3a twice with DS and once with DD
b first time was a gastro bug and over-anxious first time parents and NHS Direct covering their backs. Second time was because couldn't stop his granuloma bleeding and it had to be cauterised. With DD she fell down a full flight of stairs aged 11 months and landed on her head. Big lump and graze on head and kept in overnight for obs.

1. 6 & 4

2. Once 3. Second degree burns to hand 4. 3 times 5. Viral meningitis (not the really serious bacterial one), acute ear infection & as above with 2nd degree burns.

Roisin, my sis is a GP & has done various stints in A&E. She says the general consensus is that none of them ever mind worried parents & children but they get really, really pi$$ed off treating drunks on Fri & Sat night and all the hypochondriac adults who could have waited to see their GP on Monday with their sore toe!!!!

Q1: 9 and 12
Q2: once when youngest was 5 and I had a broken leg in plaster,couldnt drive and noone to help.
Q3:head wound, loads of blood wasnt sure if she passed out so x-ray and wound glued back together.