115 Emergency Department management adherence to national bronchiolitis guidelines and impact on resource utilization

摘要

Despite guidelines from the Canadian Paediatric Society and American Academy of Pediatrics, marked variation exists regarding bronchiolitis management in the emergency department (ED). We hypothesized that relying on pharmacotherapy to manage symptoms of bronchiolitis sets up misleading expectations for symptom progression and triggers returns to ED (RTED) when it is not effective, yet hospitalization criteria are not met.