NLM ID: Corresponding Author. Any health worker who cares for children will be faced with medical emergencies. They are common and can start with alarming speed, but if treated quickly and effectively, it will have most of the time a positive result, or at least better than expected [1]. The fight against child mortality must therefore go through a rapid diagnosis of pediatric emergencies and consequent treatment [8].
Thus, pediatric medical emergencies remain a daily reality, a real health problem and a concern with which all health personnel are confronted. This hospital was relocated in April Its Pediatrics department has 27 beds. This is a cross-sectional retrospective study. It covered the period from 1st January to 31st to Dec. The study focused on all records of children of both sexes of, under 15 years, received in the service in an emergency medical situation. A pre-established and tested survey sheet was completed for each patient.
The socio-demographic, clinical, paraclinical, therapeutic and evolutionary data were recorded. They were processed and analyzed using Epi Info 3. In total, 19, children were received in the consultation service during the study period. In all, 5, These emergencies therefore represented Two thousand and forty patients were included in the study.
The average age of our patients was Children under 5 years old accounted for In total, children For many of them, there is no personal and family pathological history of the children in emergency conditions The main reasons for consultation were fever One hundred and eight children 5.
Elsewhere, the main signs found were pallor The main syndromes were established as follows: infectious syndrome In our series, infectious emergencies represented nearly half of the types of emergencies Thus malaria Table 1.
