Articles: pediatrics.
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Many ambulatory pediatric encounters result in drug therapy. Drug dose determination, based on a child's weight, can often be simplified by modifying the order of mathematical calculation. Specifically, multiplying by body weight as the last calculation, rather than as the initial calculation, often yields values easily manipulated mentally. With this mathematical manipulation, the identical calculation is often performed repetitively which, with time, may facilitate the calculation.
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Letter Case Reports
Anesthesia and monitoring for pediatric radiation therapy.
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Comparative Study
Community hospital management of pediatric emergencies: implications for pediatric emergency medical services.
The ability of emergency physicians in a general community hospital to manage pediatric patients was evaluated. Essential diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed in the emergency department on pediatric patients transferred for admission to a tertiary care center were compared with those initially performed on the same patients by the pediatricians and residents of the tertiary care center. ⋯ Ninety one per cent of diagnostic studies and 96% of therapeutic interventions were performed in the emergency department. Implications for the care of seriously ill pediatric patients by emergency physicians and the role of community hospital emergency departments in pediatric emergency medical services (EMS) systems are discussed.