Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal

ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2026 June 9 Facility type as the primary determinant of hospitalization in pediatric foreign body ingestion: a nationwide emergency department-based analysis
Purpose: We aimed to characterize pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for foreign body (FB) ingestion in Korea, and to identify clinical- and system-level determinants of hospitalization. Methods: We analyzed 2,870 children aged 9 years or younger who visited EDs with FB...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE 2026 June 16 Trends and clinical characteristics across the full spectrum of pediatric psychiatric emergency department visits
Purpose: We analyzed annual trends and clinical characteristics across the full spectrum of pediatric psychiatric emergency department (ED) visits. Methods: This retrospective study included patients aged 18 years or younger who underwent psychiatric interview at the ED of Gyeo...

CASE REPORT 2026 May 18 Fatal warfarin-associated intracranial hemorrhage with intraventricular extension in a child with mechanical mitral valve presenting as persistent headache initially treated as acute sinusitis: a case report
Warfarin therapy in pediatric patients with mechanical heart valves carries a risk of life-threatening bleeding complications. We report a fatal case of warfarin-associated intracranial hemorrhage in a 7-year-old female with mechanical mitral valve replacement who presented with...