Emergency interhospital critical care transport for children.
The importance of pediatric interhospital transport has increased dramatically in the past 5 to 10 years. Reasons include improved capabilities of tertiary care centers receiving transported patients, advances in availability of portable equipment that functions well in moving vehicles, and widespread recognition that pediatric transport differs from that of adult transport. Practitioners of pediatric transport must deal with adaptation to previously developed models for adult and neonatal transport. National medical, regulatory, and educational organizations have recently focused attention on medical transport in general and pediatric issues in particular. Research in the field remains preliminary but is increasing rapidly, both in quantity and quality, with major progress being made in the areas of triage, training nonphysician personnel in expanded practice roles, and establishing baseline national standards.
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Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75235, USA.
D002648:Child; D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000458:organization & administration*