Erschienen in:
01.09.2003 | Editorial
Transport of seriously ill children: a neglected global issue
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2003
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Excerpt
Safe transport of seriously ill children is a neglected global health issue. Many wealthy countries that have centralized paediatric intensive care services have developed paediatric emergency transport systems. This has been in recognition that, just as the care of children requiring respiratory or cardiovascular support is best done by physicians with specialized expertise in centres with large experience, the transport of children to such referral centres is no less specialized.
Intensive Care Medicine now presents two studies suggesting the value of specialized paediatric emergency transport services: one in The Netherlands and the other in South Africa [
1,
2]. The articles provide information to inform policy decisions in these countries and reach similar general conclusions. …