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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454013403321

Titolo

Emergency care for children [[electronic resource] ] : growing pains / / Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System, Board on Health Care Services, Insititute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-84440-X

9786610844401

0-309-65964-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Future of emergency care

Disciplina

618.92/0025

Soggetti

Children - Wounds and injuries - Treatment

Emergency medical services

Pediatric emergencies

Pediatric intensive care

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 History and Current State of Pediatric Emergency Care""; ""3 Building a 21st-Century Emergency and Trauma Care System""; ""4 Arming the Emergency Care Workforce with Pediatric Knowledge and Skills""; ""5 Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care""; ""6 Improving Emergency Preparedness and Response for Children Involved in Disasters""; ""7 Building the Evidence Base for Pediatric Emergency Care""; ""Appendixes""

""Appendix A Committee and Subcommittee Membership""""Appendix B Biographical Information for Main Committee and Pediatric Emergency Care Subcommittee""; ""Appendix C List of Presentations to the Committee""; ""Appendix D List of Commissioned Papers""; ""Appendix E Recommendations and Responsible Entities from the Future of Emergency Care Series""; ""Index""