SGEM #417: Everybody’s Changing…the Reference Ranges for Pediatric Vital Signs

Studien extrahiert aus dem Podcast von Dr. Ken Milne

• 2023Time to change the reference ranges of children's physiological observations in emergency care?Emergency & ResuscitationIn 191,292 emergency-care records of children aged 0-16 years, measured heart and respiratory rates ran consistently higher than the reference centiles published by APLS.
• 2011Normal ranges of heart rate and respiratory rate in children from birth to 18 years of ageImaging & DiagnosticsIn 143,346healthy children aged 0–18 years,pooled observational datagaveheart- and respiratory-rate centilesthat disagreed withpublished reference ranges.