TY - JOUR
T1 - Is weight just a number? The accuracy of UK ambulance paediatric weight guidance- findings from a cross sectional study
AU - Charlton, Karl
AU - Capsey, Matt
AU - Moat, Christopher
PY - 2020/12/31
Y1 - 2020/12/31
N2 - The weight of children provides the cornerstone of their clinical management, as many drug dosages, equipment sizes, fluid boluses, as well as DC shock energy, are administered on a per kilogram basis. Children who attend hospital are weighed using scales prior to receiving these interventions. This is not possible in the pre-hospital environment. A paucity of evidence exists to support the page for age weight guidance indicated by JRCALC, and it remains unknown if this approach meets the reference standard of 70% of estimations within 10% of actual weight and 95% within 20% of actual weight
AB - The weight of children provides the cornerstone of their clinical management, as many drug dosages, equipment sizes, fluid boluses, as well as DC shock energy, are administered on a per kilogram basis. Children who attend hospital are weighed using scales prior to receiving these interventions. This is not possible in the pre-hospital environment. A paucity of evidence exists to support the page for age weight guidance indicated by JRCALC, and it remains unknown if this approach meets the reference standard of 70% of estimations within 10% of actual weight and 95% within 20% of actual weight
U2 - 10.29045/14784726.2020.12.5.3.1
DO - 10.29045/14784726.2020.12.5.3.1
M3 - Article
SN - 1478-4726
VL - 5
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - British Paramedic Journal
JF - British Paramedic Journal
IS - 3
ER -