Pediatric Transport Triage: Development and Assessment of an Objective Tool to Guide Transport Planning.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We developed a Pediatric Transport Triage Tool (PT3) to objectively guide selection of team composition and transport mode, thereby standardizing transport planning. Previously, modified Pediatric Early Warning Score for transport has been used to assess illness severity but not to guide transport decision making.

Methods

The PT3 was created for pediatric transport by combining objective evaluations of neurologic, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems with a systems-based medical condition list to identify diagnoses requiring expedited transport and/or advanced team composition not captured by neurologic, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems alone. A scoring algorithm was developed to guide transport planning. Transport data (mode, team composition, time to d

SUBMITTER: Steffen KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6526089 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature