There is rapidly growing evidence, outcomes for children are improved by early attendance at specialist sites. As there is NO onsite paediatric speciality provision at HRI. It has been agreed that children likely to benefit from early Paediatric/Neonatal care move to CRH as swiftly as possible. This will be done using the agreed pathway, to reduce treatment and speciality input delay.
Use the following chart as a quick checklist to review what’s normal and what’s not in a paediatric ECG.
Remember:
- Lead V4R in under5’s
- Manually calculate QTc
- WPW needs referral for ablation – increase risk of sudden death
If in any doubt discuss with paediatric registrar/senior. If in need of urgent interven:on then contact the paediatric cardiology team in LGI.