Materials and Method:
The study was conducted at a university pediatric emergency department (PED) that provides tertiary healthcare services. The home accident cases that presented to our PED within the three-month period from March 11, 2020 to June 10, 2020 were recorded in the data form. The home accident cases in the same period in 2019 were also recorded and investigated retrospectively.
For the cases that presented in these periods, the demographic data, the reason for admission to the hospital, the time of admission, the length of hospital stay, the rate of intensive care, and the interventional procedures (endoscopy, bronchoscopy, surgery, etc.) were recorded. The two groups were compared in order to find any difference between two groups.
Household accidents were classified as falls, poisoning (with drugs and non-drug substances), caustic/corrosive ingestion, foreign body ingestion or aspiration, stab injuries, suffocation, and burns. Considering the age groups where the home accidents were common, the patients were divided into two groups as ≤5 or >5 years old.
Life-saving interventions, including bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation, intubation, surgical airway, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), defibrillation, cardioversion, external pacing, needle thoracostomy, pericardiocentesis, thoracotomy, intraosseous intervention, marked fluid resuscitation, blood transfusion, major bleeding control, and the use of naloxone, dopamine, atropine, or 50% dextrose, were also determined and recorded in the data form according to the Emergency Severity Index (ESI).3