Pre Hospital Paediatric Life Support
Subtitle: The Practical Approach
Contributors: Alan Charters (Contributor); Sue Wieteska (Contributor); Malcolm Woollard (Contributor)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Ring-bound
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780727918529
Subjects: Accident & emergency medicine; Paediatric medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical Services; Pediatrics; Safety; ACCIDENTS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; Medical / Allied Health Services / Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine; Nursing - Emergency; Child; Emergency Treatment; Life support systems (Critical; Life support systems (Critical care); Pediatric emergencies; Pediatric intensive care
First sentence: As can be seen front Table 1.1, the greatest mortality during childhood occurs in the first year of life, with the highest death rate of all happening in the first month.