Approach to the pediatric trauma patients: An updated review

Abstract

Trauma is the leading cause of death in children older than 1 year. Difficulties that clinicians are experiencing are the anatomical and physiological differences of pediatric patients and lack of a standardized approach to these patients. Disorganized approaches cause increase in mortality in this group of age. The best method is to set up centers specialized for pediatric trauma. If this is not possible, education and experience levels of emergency physicians must be increased and standards must be determined in relation with other departments. Besides vital importance of establishing and performing certain algorhytms for patients with trauma, it is also important for decreasing the workload and loss of time of emergency physicians. In this study, we aimed to contribute to systematic approach to the pediatric trauma in the light of current literature © 2010 OMÜ Tüm Haklari Saklidir.