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Fire Engineering Magazine, November 2006 Articles
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Behavioral emergencies involving children present special challenges to EMS personnel.
It’s a bright sunny afternoon. A little league peewee baseball game has just started the third inning.
It’s 4:00 a.m. on the last shift of the week, and you’ve just downed your fourth cup of coffee.
Drowning, responsible for some 5,000 deaths in the United States per year, is the second most common cause of accidental death in children and a major cause of morbidity.
Children under the age of 18 years comprise 26 percent of the U.S. population, and they present special challenges for prehospital care providers when they have a medical emergency.
The significance of the Future of Emergency Care series report for the U.S. emergency care system cannot be overstated.
Forty One Larry for the assignment,” said the dispatcher as the radio squawked to life.
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