Centralised paediatric intensive care beds are blocked
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Paediatric intensive care transport.
A British Paediatric Association (BPA) working party into paediatric intensive care has recommended that children requiring such care should be moved to regional units by dedicated paediatric emergency transport teams.' Emergency transport of systems are less well developed in Britain than in many other European countries, Australia2 and the USA3 and there is no nationally agreed policy or stan...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.312.7044.1476b