You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
PostScript
Letters
Apparent life-threatening events: difficult for parents, difficult for clinicians
  1. Lucinda Claire Winckworth,
  2. Nikki L Earl,
  3. Charles Stewart
  1. Paediatric Emergency Department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Charles Stewart, Paediatric Emergency Department, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London SW10 9NH, UK; Stewart{at}chelwest.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-303746

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    We read the recent article by Hoki et al 1 with great interest. How, what and when to investigate apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) has been subject to much debate over the years. Having recently witnessed the inter-clinician variability at our institution in investigating such events, we performed a review of current practice in the UK, examining the existence and contents of any ALTE guidelines.

    All training paediatric emergency departments in the UK (n=21) …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors All authors made substantial contributions to the project conception, design and acquisition of data; to the drafting and reviewing of the manuscript, and have approved the final version to be published.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.