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Chapter 45 - Death Is a Possible Outcome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Dawn Knight  and
Shelley Riphagen
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 17-month-old little girl was referred to the regional retrieval service for urgent transfer. She was normally fit and well and had presented 3 hours previously to A&E at her local district general hospital with a 1-day history of diarrhoea and vomiting with intermittent fever (although she had been apyrexial for the past 8 hours). During her wait in A&E she had deteriorated and been moved to the resuscitation bay.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 248 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (2008) Code of practice for the diagnosis and confirmation of death. www.aomrc.org.uk/reports-guidance/ukdec-reports-and-guidance/code-practice-diagnosis-confirmation-death/.Google Scholar
Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) 6th Edition Advance Paediatric Life Support. A practical approach to emergencies. Wiley: Chichester, 2016.Google Scholar
BMA, Resuscitation Council (UK) and Royal College of Nursing. 3rd ed. Decisions relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/ethics/end-of-life/decisions-relating-to-cpr-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation.Google Scholar
Larcher, V, Craig, F, Bhogal, K, et al. Making decisions to limit treatment in life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in children: a framework for practice. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 2):s1–23.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Linney, M, Hain, RDW, Wilkinson, D, et al. Achieving consensus advice for paediatricians and other health professionals: on prevention, recognition and management of conflict in paediatric practice. Arch Dis Child 2019;104(5):413–6.Google Scholar
Medical Defence Union. 14 August 2018 Signing death certificates and cremation forms. www.themdu.com/guidance-and-advice/guides/signing-death-certificates-and-cremation-forms.Google Scholar
Paediatric FOAMed ‘Hot debrief’ www.paediatricfoam.com/2017/01/the-hot-debrief/.Google Scholar

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