Will my child live?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-85

  Molyneux, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CIRCULATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEFIBRILLATOR; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALNUTRITION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SCIENTIST; SHOCK; TRACHEOSTOMY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALAWI; PEDIATRICS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 76749136192     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.051995     Document Type: Note

References (43)

1. Nichols DG, Yaster M, Lappe DG, Buck JR. The Golden Hour. The Handbook of Advanced Pediatric Life Support. John Hopkin's Hospital, Baltimore. eds Nichols DG, Yaster M, Lappe DG, Buck JR. 1991 Mosby Year Book, St Louis, USA.
2. Hawkins LH. The history of resuscitation. Br J Hosp Med 1970:495-9.
3. Baker A. Artificial respiration: the history of an idea. Med Hist 1971;15:336.
4. Gerry D. The history of reanimation from antiquity to today's most recent methods. Evolution of resuscitation. http://www.alber.co.uk/new/medical/ animax/history.asp (accessed Dec 2009)
5. Neuberger M. History of medicine. http://www.enwikepedia.org/wiki/ history-medicne.
6. Michel Servitus Christianismi Restitutio 1553. Servitus Restitucion del Christianismo. Spanish edition eds: Acala A, Betes L. Madrid Fundacion Universitaria, Espaniola 1980. page 119.
7. Harvey W. Excercitatio Anatomica De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis Animalibus. The Warnock Library. Frankfurt 1628, Octavio edition, Germany.
8. Resuscitation and artificial respiration. http://www.freewebs.com/ scientfic-anti-vivisectionism4/resuscitation.htm. (accessed Dec 2009)
9. Ping Ping CH. The history and evolution of paediatric resuscitation. http://www.med.nus.edu.sg/paed/medical-education/postgraduate/ emergency-critica-care/. (accessed Dec 2009)
10. Hurt J. Modern cardiopulmonary resuscitation - not so new after all. J Royal Soc Med 2005;98:327-31.
11. Sands BP, Bacon OR. An inventive mind. The career of James O'Elam MD (1918-1993). Anaesthesiology 1998;88:1107-12.
12. Ryder IG, Munro HM, Doull IJM. Intraosseous infusion for resuscitation. Arch Dis Child 1991;66:1442-3.
13. Kouwenhoven WB, Jude JR, Knickerbocker GG. Closed-chest cardiac massage. JAMA 1960;173:1064-7.
14. Perondi MB, Reis AG, Paiva EF, et al. A comparison of high-dose and standard-dose epinephrine in children with cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 2004;350;1708-9.
15. Todres ID, O'Malley P, Kleinman M. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Critical Care of Infants and Children. Pages 1-13. Todres D, Fugate J eds. Little Brown and Company, 1996. Boston, New York, Toronto, London.
16. Holbrook PR. Resuscitation in textbook of pediatric critical care. Philadelphia (PA): W B Saunders and Company, 1993.
17. NHS evidence - Cardiovascular. International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Cardiac Arrest - out of hospital care. Basic life support for an adult - no equipment available. http://www.library.nhs.uk/CARDIOVASCULAR/ NewResource.aspx?resID=306417&tabID=288 (accessed Dec 2009).
18. Schein MS. History of trauma, trauma resuscitation. Abdominal compartment syndrome. http://www.trauma.org/history/acs.html. (accessed Dec 2009)
19. Animax. http://www.albus.co.uk/new/medical/animax.history.asp. (accessed Dec 2009)
20. Smith ER, Madsen JR. Cerebral pathophysiology and critical care neurology: basic hemodynamic principle, cerebral perfusion and intracranial pressure. Semin Pediatr Neurol 2004;11:89-104.
21. Reinecke H, Breitherdt G. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Simpler is more effective: the current guidelines. Med Klin (Munich) 2003;98:629-39.
22. Chadwick VL, Arrowsmith JE. Recent advances in paediatric resuscitation. Paediatr Anaesth 2004;14:417-20.
23. Robson WR. A review of the emergency care of children in England since the 18th Century. Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 19 April 2005, York, UK.
24. Phillips BM, Robson WJ. Paediatrics in the accident and emergency department. Arch Dis Child 1992;67:560-64.
25. Bardella IJ. A review of the American Heart Association recommendations. Am Fam Physician 1999;60:1743-50.
26. Committee on Trauma. American College of Surgeons. ATLS. Advanced Trauma Life Support program for Doctors. Chicago, USA. 2008.
27. Advanced Life Support Group, eds. Advanced cardiac life support. London: Chapman and Hall, 1993.
28. Advanced Life Support Group, eds Advanced paediatric life support: the practical approach. London: BMJ Publishing Group, 2004.
29. Advanced Life Support Group. Newsletter. Centre for Training and Development, Manchester: Advanced Life Support Group, 2005.
30. A framework of competencies for core higher training in paediatrics. London: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, October 2005. http://www.rcpch.ac.uk. (accessed Dec 2009)
31. WHO. Management of the child with serious infection or severe malnutrition. Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. 2000. IMCI WHO/FCH/CAH/00.1.
32. Robertson MA, Molyneux EM. Description of cause of serious illness and outcome in patients identified using ETAT guidelines in urban Malawi. Arch Dis Child 2001;85;214-17.
33. Robertson MA, Molyneux EM. Triage in the developing world: can it be done? Arch Dis Child 2001;85:208-13.
34. Molyneux EM, Ahmad S, Robertson A. Improved triage and emergency care for children reduces inpatient mortality in a resource constrained setting. Bull World Health Organ 2006;84:1-6.
35. Idro R, Aloyo J. Manifestations, quality of emergency care and outcome of severe malaria in Mulago Hospital, Uganda. Afr Health Sci 2004;4:50-7.
36. Hardaway RM. Wound shock: a history of its study and treatment. Mil Med 2004;169:265-9.
37. Nolan T, Angos P, Cunhia AJ, et al. Quality of hospital care for seriously ill children in less developed countries. Lancet 2001;357:106-10.
38. Ahmad S, Ellis J, Kumwendo H, et al. A randomised trial to compare the efficacy and safety of intranasal lorazepam and intramuscular paraldehyde in the treatment of convulsions in children. Lancet 2006;367:1591-97.
39. Marty. The evolution of the ambulance. http://www. firefightersrealstories.com/ambulance.html. (accessed Dec 2009)
40. Maloney RJ. The evolution of patient transport. Fire/EMS 2003:52-60.
41. Kissoon N, Bohn D. Choosing a volume expander. Ind J Pediatr 2003;70:969-73.
42. Pages JO. The paramedics. An illustrated history of the paramedics in their first decade in the USA. http://www.jems.com/paramedics/index2.html. (accessed Dec 2009)
43. Malawi Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS). 2000. http://www.nso.malawi. net/data-on-line/demography/dhs/Summary.html. http://www.nso.malawi.net/latest/ press-release/MDHS-final-sep-01.html. (accessed Dec 2009)