Clinical Suspicion and Language Translation in the Pediatric Emergency Department

We describe 2 teenage females who presented to our pediatric emergency department within 48 hours with similar presentations but no obvious organic cause or examination findings to suggest a specific diagnosis. We demonstrate how complex language translation issues in these adolescents contributed to prolonged diagnoses and advocate for independent interpreters to be available on first presentation to hospital.
Source: Pediatric Emergency Care - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Illustrative Cases Source Type: research