Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 601-607 , November 2007

Rapid Fluid Resuscitation in Pediatrics: Testing the American College of Critical Care Medicine Guideline

Presented as an abstract at the 2006 Society of Critical Care Medicine Annual Congress, January 2006, San Francisco, CA.

  • Michael J. Stoner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
    • ,
  • Deborah G. Goodman, RN

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
    • ,
  • Daniel M. Cohen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Emergency Medicine, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
    • ,
  • Soledad A. Fernandez, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Center for Biostatistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
    • ,
  • Mark W. Hall, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Critical Care Medicine, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
    • Columbus Children’s Research Institute, Columbus, OH
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Mark W. Hall, MD, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Columbus Children’s Hospital, 700 Children’s Drive, Columbus, OH 43205; 614-722-3437, fax 614-722-3443

Received 26 December 2006 ,Revised 23 May 2007 ,Accepted 25 June 2007.

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 Supervising editor: Kathy N. Shaw, MD, MSCEAuthor contributions: MJS and MWH conceived of the study. MJS, DGG, DMC, and MWH designed the study. MJS and DGG recruited subjects and collected data. MJS, MWH, and DMC performed data analysis. MJS and MWH drafted the article, with substantial contributions to its revision from DGG and DMC. SAF performed additional statistical analyses and provided substantial contributions to the article revision. MWH takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. This study was funded in part by NICHD K12HD43372-03, NHLBI K08HL085525-01.Publication dates: Available online August 30, 2007.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(07)01251-6

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.06.482

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 5 , Pages 601-607 , November 2007

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