{"id":5734,"date":"2016-11-22T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2016-12-13T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T03:50:07","slug":"rch-emergency-department-update-thunderclap-asthma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-emergency-department-update-thunderclap-asthma\/","title":{"rendered":"RCH Emergency Department update &#8211; Thunderclap asthma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past 24 hours our Emergency Department (ED) has treated more than 300 children, many of whom presented with &#8216;thunderclap asthma&#8217;. At 8.30am there were more than 60 patients waiting to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>The most seriously injured or sickest children are always seen first at ED so children with less urgent conditions currently face long wait times to see a doctor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3043\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/EMERGENCY-DEPT-F14043723-480288-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"EMERGENCY DEPT-F14043723-480288\" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/EMERGENCY-DEPT-F14043723-480288-290x216.jpg 290w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/EMERGENCY-DEPT-F14043723-480288-400x298.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/EMERGENCY-DEPT-F14043723-480288-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During this busy period, for less urgent care, please consider visiting your local hospital ED or GP to avoid longer <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">than usual wait times. If required, they will refer you to the RCH.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Of course, if your child is critically ill, you should call 000 or bring them to our ED.<\/p>\n<p>We think it&#8217;s important that we keep our community informed about levels of demand so you can make the best choice for your child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click through for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":4730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5739,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}