Citation

Tepas JJ. Semin. Pediatr. Surg. 2004; 13(2): 126-132.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida Health Science Center Jacksonville, 655 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15362283

Abstract

The National Pediatric Trauma Registry represents almost 15 years of effective collaboration among hospitals committed to improving care for the injured child. Its design of providing a "physiologic snapshot" of the injured child on presentation has supported numerous studies that have helped define the epidemiology of childhood injury and refine principles of management. Global analysis of the 103,434 records included in this database suggest that mortality is significantly higher in the very young, that vehicular injury remains a major pediatric public health challenge, and that shock is just as devastating in the child as the adult. Based on this foundation of collaborative commitment, future versions of a pediatric trauma database must harness the emerging internet technology that combines information accrual with human thought, and must extend this effort to include all the children of our world.