paediatrics

Which paediatric weight formula is best suited for the out-of-hospital field?

A literature review was undertaken using the electronic medical databases Ovid Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL Plus, Cochrane Systematic Review, and Meditext from their commencement date until the end of May...

Managing premature babies in the pre-hospital environment

Paramedic team was requested to attend a lady with severe abdominal pain. Antenatal notes revealed she was pregnant at 26 weeks of gestation. On arrival, the paramedic team found her partner holding...

Atlanto-occipital dislocation in children: saving a life in the trauma field

Over a period of 17 years (1986–2003), a total of 16 children with AOD were seen at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The mean age of this group was 7.6 years (range 1.3–16.3 years). All 16...

The paramedics' role in safeguarding and protecting children and young people

A search was conducted of the emergency nursing and paramedic practice journals, alongside Pubmed, Cochrane, and Science-Direct data bases, from 1990 to current date. The following key words were...

Reflex anoxic seizure in children

‘RAS is the term used for a particular fit which is neither epileptic nor due to cyanotic breathholding, but which rather results from a brief stoppage of the heart through excessive activity of the...

Improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality with help from a popular song

This is a prospective, randomized, parallel group design study that was carried out at a primary school in Galicia (northwest Spain) and the participants, who were comprised of schoolchildren aged...

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