Publications by authors named "Kim Zaky"
Objectives: Emergency medical services (EMS) clinicians are in a unique position to screen for child maltreatment as they are often the first point of contact with the health care system and they may encounter children in their home environment. However, EMS training regarding the signs of child maltreatment is lacking. Although several child maltreatment screening tools have been developed for the primary care and emergency department (ED) settings, there appears to be no published literature describing or evaluating a prehospital screening aid.
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- Accurate weight assessment is crucial for pediatric medication dosing but is challenging in prehospital settings, making medication errors common; two systems, the Handtevy method and Broselow tape, aid EMS providers in weight estimation and dosing.
- This study aimed to evaluate how well these methods work in real-life scenarios by analyzing data from EMS transport of pediatric patients to a children's hospital between January and June 2021.
- Findings showed that the Broselow method estimated patient weight accurately within +/-10% of the ED scale in 51.3% of cases, while the Handtevy method did so in 43.7%; no significant differences were observed between the two methods.