NHS issues urgent alert amid spike in the number of children being admitted to intensive care with a new coronavirus-related ‘inflammatory syndrome’
Doctors have been issued an alert over a rise in the number of children needing intensive care with a coronavirus-related condition
NHS doctors have been issued an urgent alert about a sharp rise in the number of children being admitted to intensive care with a coronavirus-related condition.
In an alert sent to GPs, health chiefs said: ‘There is growing concern that a [COVID-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK.’
The alert was sent out by a clinical commissioning group in North London and tweeted by the Paediatric Intensive Care Society charity.
The alert, seen by the Health Service Journal, told GPs to refer children with symptoms including abdominal pain as a ‘matter of urgency’.
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