Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Dec 2001
Use of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality Score as predictor of death and serious neurologic damage in children after submersion.
To evaluate the Pediatric Risk of Mortality score (PRISM score) as a tool to evaluate the vital and neurologic prognosis of patients after submersion. ⋯ PRISM score enables the determination of either absence or presence of serious impairment or death in pediatric patients after submersion, if they present extreme values on this scale. However, in patients with intermediate PRISM scores, it is not possible to establish a reliable prognosis.
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Pediatric emergency care · Dec 2001
Prehospital evaluation of non-transported pediatric patients by a large emergency medical services system.
1) To determine whether demographic characteristics of prehospital pediatric patients evaluated, but not transported, by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel were different than those of transported patients in a large metropolitan area, 2) to determine whether chart documentation for non-transported (NT) patients by EMS personnel varied among paramedic and ambulance units, and 3) to describe the most common complaints of pediatric non-transported patients. ⋯ In this large metropolitan population, non-transport was less common in children under 2 years of age and during the early morning hours. Hispanic children were more likely to be transported. Ambulance units were significantly less likely than paramedic units to document contact with OLMC. Injuries were the most common complaints of pediatric NT patients.