Prehospital pediatric medication administration is frequently subject to weight-based dosing errors, necessitating systemic strategies for improvement.
Alerts to dosing risks in prehospital pediatric care; hypothesis-generating for EMS protocol improvements pending prospective validation.
Medications delivered in the prehospital care of children were frequently administered outside of the proper dose range when compared with patient weights recorded in the prehospital medical record. EMS systems should develop strategies to reduce pediatric medication dosing errors.
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