Prehospital and disaster medicine
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Prehosp Disaster Med · Nov 2015
Factors Associated with Time to Arrival at a Regional Pediatric Trauma Center.
The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that the prehospital time between injury and arrival at a trauma center for critically injured children is associated with patient injury severity and mode of transport. ⋯ Field triage and decision making appeared to correlate with severity of patient injury with expeditious transport of the most severely injured children to definitive trauma care. This finding serves as important groundwork that might enable further study into factors that influence triage and overall prehospital care for critically injured children. Odetola FO , Mann NC , Hansen KW , Bratton SL . Factors associated with time to arrival at a regional pediatric trauma center. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(1):1 6.