Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 175-187, February 2004

The perspective of paramedics about on-scene termination of resuscitation efforts for pediatric patients☆

  • William L. Hall II

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital, 2635 N. 7th Avenue, Box 1628, Grand Junction, CO 81501, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1-970-244-1997; fax: +1-970-242-1843.
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  • John H. Myers

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    • The Medical City Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Paul E. Pepe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
    • The Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    • The Department of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
    • The Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    • The City of Houston EMS System, Houston, TX, USA
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  • Gregory L. Larkin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA
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  • Paul E. Sirbaugh

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    • The City of Houston EMS System, Houston, TX, USA
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  • David E. Persse

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
    • The City of Houston EMS System, Houston, TX, USA

Received 24 March 2003; received in revised form 18 September 2003; accepted 18 September 2003.

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☆ Presented as an abstract at The Annual Meeting for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 20 May 1997 in Washington, DC.

PII: S0300-9572(03)00363-0

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2003.09.013

Resuscitation
Volume 60, Issue 2 , Pages 175-187, February 2004

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