Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 247-249 , March 1989

Pediatric critical care transport: Is a physician always needed on the team?

    MD
  • Karin A McCloskey

      Affiliations

    • Critical Care Transport, The Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Karin A McCloskey, MD, The Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
    • , RPh, MPH
  • William D King

      Affiliations

    • Southeast Child Safety Institute, The Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    • , MD
  • Lori Byron

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Ambulatory Care, The Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Received 25 May 1988 ,Revised 20 October 1988 ,Accepted 28 November 1988.

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 Presented at the University Association for Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, May 1988.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 18, Issue 3 , Pages 247-249 , March 1989

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