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This study evaluates how often injured children requiring trauma care are transported to pediatric trauma centers by emergency medical services.

Pediatric Trauma Center Utilization for Children Transported by Emergency Medical Services

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Retrospective cohort study evaluating EMS transport of injured children, indicating challenges in reaching pediatric trauma centers.

This study evaluates how often injured children requiring trauma care are transported to pediatric trauma centers by emergency medical services.
Retrospective cohort study using NEMSIS database from 2019-2022.
Included patients under 16 transported by EMS who met ACS trauma center criteria.
Analyzed geographic access and used logistic regression to identify factors influencing PTC transport.
Out of 793,459 injured children, 12.3% met trauma center criteria.
Of those with access to a PTC, only 40.6% were transported there.
Transport interval was longer for PTC transports (20 minutes) compared to others (15 minutes).

Donohue et al. (2026) studied this question.

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