title: Issues and approaches to safely transporting children with special healthcare needs.
abstract: Transporting children with special health care needs (CSHCN) may be complex and require a multidisciplinary approach to improve a child's comfort and safety. This review (adapted from the resource manual of the National Center for the Safe Transportation of Children with Special Health Care Needs.) will discuss the basic principles of child passenger safety for CSHCN, including types of child occupant restraints, the use of child occupant restraint devices (CRD) for selected CHSCN, and how to locate or, if needed, develop programs to train child passenger safety technicians (CPST) to help with safe transportation of CSHCN.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Developmental Pediatrics, Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. joeoneil@iupui.edu
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: O'Neil
authors.forename: Marilyn J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Bull
authors.forename: Kerstin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sobus
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D057207:Child Restraint Systems / Q000592:standards; D002675:Child, Preschool; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards; D012622:Seat Belts / Q000592:standards; D014186:Transportation / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055815:Young Adult