title: Reducing anxiety in children in A&E.
abstract: An unfamiliar environment such as A&E can easily provoke feelings of anxiety in an injured child. Julie Morcombe describes a case study of a five year old girl who required treatment for a deep laceration of her arm.
authors.affiliation: Sheffield Children's Hospital.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morcombe
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing*; D001134:Arm Injuries / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012944:Social Support