9-1-1 Responses for shopping cart and stroller injuries

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 660-663

  Vilke, Gary M ^a   Stepanski, Barbara M ^a   Ray, Leslie Upledger ^a   Lutz, Margaret W ^a   Murrin, Patricia A ^a   Chan, Theodore C ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Paramedic; Prehospital; Shopping carts; Strollers

Indexed keywords

9 1 1 EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; EQUIPMENT; FACE INJURY; FALLING; FIRST AID; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SHOPPING CART INJURY; STROLLER INJURY; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ARM INJURIES; CALIFORNIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT EQUIPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 6044273689     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000142949.81135.3d     Document Type: Article

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