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Randy M. Rockney, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1988;142(1):73-75.

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Life-threatening emergencies or "code blue" situations provoke anxiety for most physicians and other health care professionals. This is especially true when the critically ill patient is an infant or a child. Paradoxically, however, comfort and familiarity with emergency procedures and drug doses is low when the patient is a child. This can be attributed to the relatively infrequent occurrence of life-threatening emergencies in children, which results in limited physician experience with such situations and the heightened anxiety everyone feels when dealing with a critically ill child. Also, emergency medical services outside of pediatric centers are infrequently provided by physicians familiar with the emergency care of children.² In a 1984 study, Seidel et al³ presented evidence that emergency medical services do not adequately meet the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Pediatrics, Brown University Program in Medicine, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 1, 1987.

Reprint requests to Department of Pediatrics—Wood 4, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, RI 02860 (Dr Rockney).

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