Guideline · Consensus statement
Consensus Recommendations of the Academic College of Emergency Experts in India on the Evaluation and Management of Polytrauma in Children Presenting to the Emergency Department in India.
- Cardiac arrest and resuscitation
- Major trauma
- Medical
- Nursing
- Professional practice
- Transport
- Transport and retrieval
- Trauma and burns
Summary
India-specific consensus guideline from the Academic College of Emergency Experts on evaluation and emergency management of paediatric polytrauma. It covers the local epidemiology of childhood injury, the trauma chain of survival, triage and a systematic approach to the injured child in the emergency department. Intended for prehospital staff, ED clinicians, surgeons, and intensive care physicians and nurses. It also calls for standardised trauma data collection to support future revisions.
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