ED Support Services
Support services should have the skills and capability to provide care for children, the equipment necessary to do so, and guidelines that are age and size specific.
Support services should have the skills and capability to provide care for children, the equipment necessary to do so, and guidelines that are age and size specific.
The purpose of this policy is to provide guidelines and direction for members of the medical staff with the responsibility of requesting x-ray, computed tomography, nuclear medicine, fluoroscopy, ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging to pediatric patients in an emergency medical setting.
Pediatric health care professionals’ roles in the use of computed tomography on children include deciding when a computed tomography scan is necessary and discussing the risk with patients and families.
Decision making algorithms for the pediatric patient with minor blunt force head trauma