Prehospital and disaster medicine
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Prehosp Disaster Med · Aug 2016
The Broselow and Handtevy Resuscitation Tapes: A Comparison of the Performance of Pediatric Weight Prediction.
To assess the performance of two pediatric length-based tapes (Broselow and Handtevy) in predicting actual weights of US children. ⋯ For pediatric weight estimation, the Broselow tape performed better overall than the Handtevy tape and more closely approximated actual weight. Lowe CG , Campwala RT , Ziv N , Wang VJ . The Broselow and Handtevy resuscitation tapes: a comparison of the performance of pediatric weight prediction. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(4):364-375.