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Prof. Dr. Sabiha ŞAHİN Head of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department |
Emergency and critical care service is given for 24 hours a day to patients between 0-18 ages with high fever, breathing difficulties, pneumonia, changes in consciousness, seizure, trauma, acute abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, urgent cardiac diseases, shock, poisoning, animal bites, diabetic ketoacidosis, dehydratation, anaphylaxis, urticaria, orthopedic emergencies, ear, nose and throat diseases and eye diseases by experienced emergency care professionals. Providing ‘the right to live’ and ‘the right to access health care services given by specialized, qualified and specially trained physicians’ which are among the most incontestable rights of children has an important role in decreasing child death rate. ‘Children are not little adults’. Starting from the services given before hospital to the ones given in emergency care units, treatments must be carried out by experienced physicians provided with medical education oriented in child health and furnished with children emergency diseases.
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