Michael Barrett

Publications

• The effect of national public health measures on the characteristics of trauma presentations to a busy paediatric emergency service in Ireland: a longitudinal observational study
• Fever education for caregivers in the emergency room (The FEVER study)–an interventional trial
• Supporting clinical decision making in the emergency department for paediatric patients using machine learning: A scoping review protocol
• A Bibliometric Analysis of Global Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Networks.
• Virtual Reality Hypnoanxiolysis and Analgesia for Emergency Department Needle-Related Procedures: A Prospective Interventional Cohort Pilot Study Implementation
• 428 Improving staff clinical competence in caring for LGBTQ+ patients in the paediatric emergency department through online education
• Impact on the incidence of suspected physical abuse in children under 24 months of age during a global pandemic: A Multi-centre irish regional retrospective Cross-Sectional analysis
• Where to start? The Irish Emergency Department Antimicrobial Discharge (EDAD) study: a multicentre, prospective cohort analysis
• Children Presenting with Diabetes and Diabetic Ketoacidosis to Emergency Departments During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK and Ireland: An International Retrospective Observational Study
• Psychological distress and trauma in doctors providing frontline care during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and Ireland: a prospective longitudinal survey cohort study
• Development of a low‐dimensional model to predict admissions from triage at a pediatric emergency department
• Healthcare utilisation and unmet health needs in children with intellectual disability: a propensity score matching approach using longitudinal cohort data
• Point-of-care testing in Paediatric settings in the UK and Ireland: a cross-sectional study
• Pain management in children and young adults with minor injury in emergency departments in the UK and Ireland: A PERUKI service evaluation
• Applying clinical decision aids for the assessment and management of febrile infants presenting to emergency care in the UK and Ireland: Febrile Infant Diagnostic Assessment and Outcome (FIDO) Study protocol
• Child protection concern in patients during the COVID-19 lockdown.
• Policy of free GP care for children under 6 years: The impact on emergency department attendance
• Staff competence in caring for LGBTQ+ patients in the paediatric emergency department
• Learnings From a National Cyberattack Digital Disaster During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department
• Children presenting with diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis to Emergency Departments during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK and Ireland: an international retrospective observational study
• The DIMPLES study
• Correction to: Child protection concern in patients during the COVID‑19 lockdown (Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -), (2023), 192, 3, (1281-1283), 10.1007/s11845-022-03115-6)
• Respective role of non-pharmaceutical interventions on bronchiolitis outbreaks, an interrupted time series analysis based on a multinational surveillance system
• Management of Pain and Distress in a Paediatric Population
• 481 The curious case of new onset paediatric diabetes and COVID-19
• Paediatric major incident triage: A Delphi process to determine clinicians' attitudes and beliefs within the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Patterns of presentations of children to emergency departments across Europe and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective observational multinational study.
• Diagnostic test accuracy of dipstick urinalysis for diagnosing urinary tract infection in febrile infants attending the emergency department
• Improving the Quality of Paediatric ECG Interpretation.
• Responses of paediatric emergency departments to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: a cross-sectional survey study
• Paediatric hospital admissions for psychiatric and psychosocial reasons during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Improving clinical competence with LGBTQ+ patients in the paediatric emergency department: an education intervention study
• Predicting Admissions From a Paediatric Emergency Department – Protocol for Developing and Validating a Low-Dimensional Machine Learning Prediction Model
• Associations between initial serum pH value and outcomes of paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
• One and done? Outcomes from 3961 patients managed via a virtual fracture clinic pathway for paediatric fractures
• National Paediatric Mortality Register 2023: A review of mortality in children and young people in Ireland.
• This infant is having a stroke: an illustrative case report
• How to work up a patient with bloody diarrhoea
• The Pause- a recognition of a life
• What does SARS-CoV-2 tell us about the aetiology of environmental triggers for diabetes in children and young people?
• Validating clinical practice guidelines for the management of febrile infants presenting to the emergency department in the UK and Ireland
• Psychological distress during the acceleration phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey of doctors practising in emergency medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in the UK and Ireland
• Iron Overload and Outcomes in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
• Psychological Distress and Trauma in Doctors Providing Frontline Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom and Ireland: A Prospective Longitudinal Survey Cohort Study
• Safety and efficacy of a nitrous oxide procedural sedation programme in a paediatric emergency department: a decade of outcomes
• A child with rare post-traumatic bilateral shoulder deformities
• A Diagnostic Accuracy Study to Evaluate Standard Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) Alone to Safely Rule Out Imported Malaria in Children Presenting to UK Emergency Departments
• Effect of Amoxicillin Dose and Treatment Duration on the Need for Antibiotic Re-treatment in Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The CAP-IT Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Presentations of children to emergency departments across Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic: A multinational observational study
• Toddler Fractures Immobilisation and Complications: A retrospective review
• Preparedness and Response to Pediatric COVID-19 in European Emergency Departments: A Survey of the REPEM and PERUKI Networks
• Mobile device and app use in paediatric emergency care: a survey of departmental practice in the UK and Ireland.
• Increased mental health presentations by children aged 5-15 at emergency departments during the first 12 months of covid-19
• Psychological distress and trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey of doctors practising anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
• Structures of paediatric pain management: A PERUKI service evaluation study
• Nasal foreign bodies in the paediatric emergency department.
• Children's complex care needs: a systematic concept analysis of multidisciplinary language
• Morphine
• Petechiae
• Anisocoria
• The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Health and Well-Being: Are Children “Slipping through the Net”? A Qualitative Study of Frontline Emergency Care Staff
• Parental Hesitancy and Concerns around Accessing Paediatric Unscheduled Healthcare during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Survey
• Inhaled methoxyflurane (Penthrox®) versus placebo for injury-associated analgesia in children-the MAGPIE trial (MEOF-002): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
• National rotavirus vaccination programme implementation and gastroenteritis presentations: the paediatric emergency medicine perspective.
• Incidence of medically attended paediatric burns across the UK.
• Pediatric acute asthma scoring systems: a systematic review and survey of UK practice.
• GP234 Thrombolysis of arterial ischaemic stroke in an eight month old: the first irish case
• G349(P) Spectrum of paediatric traumatic brain injury presenting to tertiary paediatric emergency departments
• G236 Prevalence and Management of Acute Pain in Children Attending Emergency Departments in Ireland Via Ambulance
• G297(P) The utility of ketones at triage
• GP69 Cerebral vascular accident association post primary varicella infection
• The utility of ketones at triage: a prospective cohort study
• Emergency intubation of children outside of the operating room
• Prevalence of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in the Prodromal Stages of Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson's Disease Dementia
• PAEDIATRIC HEAD TRAUMA IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
• The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child health and the provision of Care in Paediatric Emergency Departments: a qualitative study of frontline emergency care staff
• Ischaemic stroke post-varicella infection: A vaccine preventable disease
• Factors that influence family and parental preferences and decision making for unscheduled paediatric healthcare-systematic review
• Ascending upper limb lymphangitis.
• Atresia Hymenalis with Haematometrocolpos: A Benefit of Teaching a Case Series and Review of the Literature.
• Emergency Point-of-Care Ultrasound Identification of Pediatric Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Malfunctions.
• In reply.
• Complex Regional Pain Type 1.
• Young Man With Lump in His Neck.
• A randomised controlled trial of cognitive aids for emergency airway equipment preparation in a Paediatric Emergency Department.
• A Randomized Trial of Single-Dose Oral Dexamethasone Versus Multidose Prednisolone for Acute Exacerbations of Asthma in Children Who Attend the Emergency Department.
• Alcohol-based hand sanitiser: a potentially fatal toy.
• Laryngospasm With Apparent Aspiration During Sedation With Nitrous Oxide.
• Intranasal fentanyl for the management of acute pain in children.
• Combined anti-cholinergic and short-acting β-agonist therapy reduces hospital admissions for acute asthma.
• The national incidence and outcomes of gastroschisis repairs.
• A qualitative study of the barriers to prehospital management of acute pain in children.
• Factors that influence family and parental preferences and decision making for unscheduled paediatric healthcare: a systematic review protocol
• Too old for a paediatric emergency department? It’s complex
• CUPID COVID-19: emergency department attendance by paediatric patients during COVID-19 - project protocol
• COVID-19 emergency response assessment study: a prospective longitudinal survey of frontline doctors in the UK and Ireland: study protocol
• Children’s unscheduled primary and emergency care in Ireland: a multimethod approach to understanding decision making, trends, outcomes and parental perspectives (CUPID): project protocol
• Understanding the Impact of Public Health Advice on Paediatric Healthcare Use During COVID-19: A Cross-sectional Survey of Parents
• Paediatric Head Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Public Health Stages on Paediatric Emergency Attendance
• THE CHANGING FACE OF PAEDIATRIC TRACHEOSTOMIES
• CLINICAL OUTCOMES AND TREATMENT DIFFICULTIES IN BOYS WITH HYPOPHOSPHATAEMIC RICKETS
• 413 Newborn Body Composition on Day Two of Life Measured Using Airdisplacement Body Plethysmography
• DO VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS NEED ROUTINE IRON SUPPLEMENTS?
• Iron Overload in Very Low Birth Weight Infants: Serum Ferritin and Adverse Outcomes
• 'HOW WAS THAT LOW?' A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE OF INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST
• ARE FLYING INFANTS AT INCREASED RISK?
• INCREASING INCIDENCE OF GASTROSCHISIS IN IRELAND: A WORRYING TREND
• OUR EXPERIENCE OF THE INSULIN TOLERANCE TEST (ITT)
• 1619 Paediatric Painful Sickle Cell Crises: A Prospective Audit of Analgesic Practise in a Tertiary Paediatric Emergency Department
• MENKE'S DISEASE: A CHILLY DIAGNOSIS AND A CLINICAL CHAMELEON
• 1578 The Correlation Between C-Reactive Protein and Serious Bacterial Infection in a Tertiary Paediatric Emergency Department: An Observational Case-Controlled Cohort Study
• TERM NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY: DEEP WHITE MATTER CHANGES CORRELATION TO CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND PLACENTAL HISTOPATHOLOGY
• G243(P) A Qualitative Study of the Barriers to the Pre-Hospital Management of Acute Pain in Children
• Paediatric diabetes and SARS-CoV-2 - a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
• 291 Prolonged Observation Stays and Utilization Rates Across 12 States
• TERM NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY: A CORRELATION BETWEEN DEEP WHITE MATTER CHANGES, CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND PLACENTAL HISTOPATHOLOGY
• THE INCIDENCE OF GASTROSCHISIS IN IRELAND - A WORRYING TREND
• Structured sedation programs in the emergency department, hospital and other acute settings: protocol for systematic review of effects and events.
• Isolated acute non-cystic white matter injury in term infants presenting with neonatal encephalopathy.
• Chronic constipation causing obstructive nephropathy in a delayed toddler.
• Intranasal fentanyl versus intravenous morphine in the emergency department treatment of severe painful sickle cell crises in children: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
• Do we neglect infant safety during air travel?
• High-resolution genomics identifies pneumococcal diversity and persistence of vaccine types in children with community-acquired pneumonia in the UK and Ireland
• Characteristics of children presenting with new onset diabetes and DKA in the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cohort study
• Black and white: how good are clinicians at diagnosing elbow injuries from paediatric elbow radiographs alone?
• Management of paediatric elbow injuries, where is the equipoise? A UK and Ireland wide international survey of practice
• #221 PEM adventures: enhancing paediatric emergency education by integration of narrative and simulation for interactive learning
• #191 An analysis of paediatric headache presentations to the emergency department in children’s health Ireland
• #269 How readable are the ‘Patient information leaflets’ provided to carers of paediatric patients in acute care?
• #279 Predicting wait time of low-acuity patients in a paediatric ED
• #164 Double-blind randomised placebo-controlled study of paediatric acute trauma pain treatment with methoxyflurane
• Performance of clinical decision aids (CDA) for the care of young febrile infants: a multicentre prospective cohort study conducted in the UK and Ireland
• Surge of Pediatric Respiratory Tract Infections After the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Concept of “Immune Debt”
• Surge of Pediatric Respiratory Tract Infections After the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Concept of "Immune Debt".
• Respiratory viral testing for young febrile infants presenting to emergency care: a planned secondary analysis of the Febrile Infants Diagnostic assessment and Outcome (FIDO) prospective observational cohort study
• International Consensus Definition of ‘Sport & Exercise’ in Toddlers and Young Children, Children, and Adolescents
• National Paediatric Mortality Register annual report 2025: data from 1st January 2019 to 31st December 2023
• Re: Toddler fractures immobilisation and complications: A retrospective review
• Paediatric and perinatal deaths by the Office of the Irish State Pathologists: a 5-year retrospective cohort study