Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria/University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu, 400001, Nigeria.
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria.
BMC Emerg Med. 2023 Mar 16;23(1):31. doi: 10.1186/s12873-023-00790-1.
The practice of paediatric emergency medicine in Nigeria is still evolving, and laden with enormous challenges which contribute to adverse outcomes of childhood illnesses in emergency settings. Deaths from childhood illnesses presenting as emergencies contribute to overall child mortality rates in Nigeria. This narrative review discusses existing structures, organization, and practice of paediatric emergency in Nigeria. It highlights some of the challenges and suggests ways of surmounting them in order to reduce deaths in the children emergency units in Nigerian hospitals. Important aspects of this review include current capacity and need for capacity development, equipment needs for emergency care, quality of service in the context of inadequate healthcare funding and the need for improvement.
尼日利亚的儿科急诊医学实践仍在发展中，面临着巨大的挑战，这些挑战导致了儿童在急诊环境中患病的不良后果。因急症就诊的儿童疾病导致了尼日利亚整体儿童死亡率的上升。本文综述讨论了尼日利亚儿科急诊的现有结构、组织和实践。它强调了一些挑战，并提出了克服这些挑战的方法，以降低尼日利亚医院儿科急诊病房的儿童死亡率。本文的重要内容包括当前的能力和能力发展需求、急诊护理所需的设备、在医疗保健资金不足的情况下的服务质量以及需要改进的方面。
