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Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Pediatric Emergencies: A Reliable Lifeline or a Risk?

Seerat Kular; Vikas Kumar; Alexander Muacevic; John R Adler

Originally published 2025-08-01 · Cureus
Cureus Inc. · DOI 10.7759/cureus.89234 ↗

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AI / system type

Generative AI / emergency-information audit

Family implications

Design, ethics, stakeholder or technical evidence with child/family implications; household benefits are not assumed.

The AI connection

Compares two generative ChatGPT versions on pediatric basic-life-support questions.

Why this reading matters

Examines a high-stakes setting where incomplete advice matters, without treating an AI chatbot as an emergency-care substitute.

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Why is a convincing chatbot answer an inadequate safety test for an urgent child-health question?

The audit focuses Trust on safety-critical omissions rather than average fluency. Emergency-response content is a demanding test of whether AI guidance should be relied upon.

Study context

Thirteen broad questions evaluated for ChatGPT-4o and 4o mini

Age / stage: Pediatric emergency scenarios; no families enrolled

Read with three questions

  1. How were completeness and guideline conformity evaluated?
  2. What kinds of partial or omitted information were found?
  3. Why does a content audit not demonstrate reliable help during a real emergency?

Keep the limits in view

The study evaluated a limited prompt set against the cited guideline version. It was not a trial of families responding to emergencies, and model performance may change across versions and prompting.

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Seerat Kular; Vikas Kumar; Alexander Muacevic; John R Adler (2025). Artificial Intelligence Chatbots in Pediatric Emergencies: A Reliable Lifeline or a Risk? Cureus. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.89234

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