Procedures performed by pediatric transport nurses: How "advanced" is the practice?

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 410-413

  King, Brent R ^a   Foster, Robin L ^b   Woodward, George A ^c   McCans, Kathryn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced practice; Pediatric transport; Procedures; Transport team composition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; TRAINING;

AMBULANCES; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT TRANSFER; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEXAS;

EID: 0035687062     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006565-200112000-00003     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Nonphysician transport of intubated pediatric patients: A system evaluation
2. Comparison of intubation skills between interfacility transport team members
3. Out of hospital rapid-sequence induction for intubation of the pediatric patient
4. Prehospital pediatric endotracheal intubation performance review
5. Endotracheal intubation of pediatric patients by paramedics
6. Effect of out-of-hospital pediatric endotracheal intubation on survival and neurological outcome: A controlled clinical trial
7. Influence of referring physicians on interventions by a pediatric and neonatal critical care transport team
8. Pediatric mortality probability estimated from pre-ICU severity of illness
9. Pretransport Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) score underestimates the requirement for intensive care or major interventions during interhospital transport
10. Management of difficult airways in the field
11. Effect of varied training techniques on filed endotracheal intubation success rates
12. Prospective study of manikin-only versus manikin and human subject endotracheal intubation training of paramedics
13. Knowledge and skill retention of emergency care attendants, EMT-As, and EMT-Ps
14. Optimal escort for interhospital transport of pediatric emergencies
15. Comparison of aeromedical crew performance by patient severity and outcome
16. Critical care interhospital transports; Predictability of the need for a pediatrician
17. Variables predicting the need for a pediatric critical care transport team