Pediatric Disaster Preparedness: The Potential Role of the Trauma Registry
- Laura Cassidy
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This article discusses how trauma registries can help in planning for disasters involving children. It describes the history and current state of pediatric trauma registries, showing examples of how they are used in disaster planning. The National Pediatric Trauma Registry stopped in 2002, and while a new plan exists, it lacks funding. The National Trauma Data Bank has lots of records but not enough focus on kids. It suggests using existing data to predict outcomes during disasters but highlights the need for more child-specific data to make accurate predictions for large-scale events.
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