First responder performance in pediatric trauma: A comparison with an adult cohort

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Bankole, Sunday ^a   Asuncion, Arsenia ^a   Ross, Steven ^b   Aghai, Zubair ^c   Nollah, Laura ^d   Echols, Heather ^d   Da Silva, Shonola ^a  

^a Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b Division of Traumatology   (United States)

^c Department of Surgery   (United States)

^d RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medical services; Glasgow coma scale; intubation; pediatric trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 79960767674     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181f36f6e     Document Type: Article

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