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AAP Grand Rounds 2:33-34 (1999)
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Parents Prefer to be Present During Invasive Procedures

Source: Boie ET, Moore GP, Brummett C, Nelson DR. Do parents want to be present during invasive procedures performed on their children in the emergency department? A survey of 400 parents. Ann Emerg Med. 1999;34:70–74.

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During a 10-week period, parents and grandparents in the ED waiting area of a large Indianapolis inner-city university hospital were given a self-administered written survey containing five scenarios involving treatment of their child with procedures. Participants were not required to have an ill child with them that day and were invited to participate regardless of their age or the age of their children. The scenarios involved procedures of increasing degree of invasiveness: (1) venipuncture, (2) laceration repair, (3) lumbar puncture, (4) oral endotracheal intubation, and (5) major resuscitation. In the major resuscitation scenario, the caretaker was asked whether they would want to stay with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Jeffrey R. Avner, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY