Can sick children tell time?: Emergency department presentation patterns of critically ill children

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 906-910

  Sacchetti, Alfred ^a   Warden, Todd ^b   Moakes, Mary Ellen ^b   Moyer, Vern ^b  

^a OUR LADY OF LOURDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Medical Information Network   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Critically ill children; Emergency department; Presentation patterns

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIGLOTTITIS; EPILEPTIC STATE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 0032829457     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb01239.x     Document Type: Article

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