@article{ref1,
title="Prehospital medical equipment for care of pediatric injury patients in Japanese  ambulances: a nationwide survey",
journal="Acute medicine and surgery",
year="2020",
author="Toida, Chiaki and Muguruma, Takashi",
volume="7",
number="1",
pages="e605-e605",
abstract="AIM: We evaluated the status of the allocation of medical emergency equipment  suitable for pediatric patients of all ages. <br><br>METHODS: In 2019, we surveyed the  emergency medical officers from 728 fire defense headquarters around Japan. The  questionnaire was designed to evaluate the kind and size of equipment available to  ambulance crews for prehospital emergency care of injured pediatric patients. A  complete pediatric equipment set was defined as a set containing equipment suitable  for children aged 0-14 years. <br><br>RESULTS: Overall, 599 (82%) fire defense headquarters  responded to our survey. Of these, 596 (99.5%) declared that pediatric equipment was  available to ambulance crews. The allocation rates of complete pediatric sets were  considerably low: blood pressure cuff, 5%; nasopharyngeal airway, 1%; oropharyngeal  airway, 7%; laryngoscope, 6%; supraglottic airway device, 13%; endotracheal tube,  0.2%; and bag-valve-mask, 23%. Moreover, none of these fire defense headquarters had  complete pediatric equipment sets for all 14 devices assessed in this study. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Although most Japanese ambulances can provide prehospital emergency  care to pediatric patients, this survey revealed the dispersion and deficiencies in  the availability of complete pediatric equipment sets.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2052-8817",
doi="10.1002/ams2.605",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ams2.605"
}