| Title: |
Australian Emergency Department Doctors and Nurses' Perspectives on the Duration of Persistent Tachycardia in Children |
| Authors: |
Mutic, Anastasia; Tan, Eunicia; Fahey, Michael; Callander, Emily; Haskell, Libby; George, Shane; Borland, Meredith; Loftus, Naomi; Kasza, Jessica; Furyk, Jeremy; Phillips, Natalie; Dalziel, Stuart R; Craig, Simon |
| Publisher Information: |
Wiley |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Griffith University: Griffith Research Online |
| Subject Terms: |
Emergency medicine; Clinical sciences |
| Description: |
Objective To explore time thresholds for ‘persistent tachycardia’ in children among Australian emergency department clinicians. Methods Online cross-sectional survey of emergency department clinicians. Respondents were asked to indicate the duration in hours they considered that a tachycardia in a child would be classified as ‘persistent’. Results Among 499 respondents, 304 (60.9%) identified tachycardia as ‘persistent’ by 2 h, and 471 (94.3%) by 4 h; the most common response was 2 h (147 (51.2%) doctors; 78 (36.8%) nurses). Conclusions Time based thresholds for ‘persistent tachycardia’ differ. This has implications for its use in rapid-response systems and early recognition of serious illness. ; Full Text |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
Emergency Medicine Australasia; Mutic, A; Tan, E; Fahey, M; Callander, E; Haskell, L; George, S; Borland, M; Loftus, N; Kasza, J; Furyk, J; Phillips, N; Dalziel, SR; Craig, S, Australian Emergency Department Doctors and Nurses' Perspectives on the Duration of Persistent Tachycardia in Children, Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2025, 37 (4), pp. e70118; https://hdl.handle.net/10072/438494 |
| DOI: |
10.1111/1742-6723.70118 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/10072/438494; https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.70118 |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; © 2025 The Author(s). Emergency Medicine Australasia published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ; open access |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.BC052C89 |
| Database: |
BASE |