American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Hospital Care: Guidelines for Air and Ground Transportation of Pediatric Patients.

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A pediatric transport system should be capable of rapidly delivering advanced pediatric skilled critical care to the patient’s bedside at the referring hospital and of maintaining that level of care during transport to the receiving hospital. Physicians and others with special expertise in pediatric transport have developed specific recommendations for pediatric transport systems.19 The Committee on Hospital Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in collaboration with expert consultants, offers the following guidelines for pediatric transport. These recommendations require periodic review as new equipment, techniques, and data evolve in this 0 rapidly progressing field. Some of these recommendations may need modification to fit local circumstances. This statement modifies and enlarges upon a previously published chapter in the AAP manual, Hospital Care of Children and Youth.’#{176} Neonatal transport systems have many of the same characteristics.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Pediatrics

دوره 78 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986