Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 38-51 , March 2006

Emergency Care of the Technology-Assisted Child

  • Jill C. Posner, MD, MSCE

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Jill C. Posner, MD, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
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  • Kathleen Cronan, MD, FAAP

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, A. I. duPont Hospital for Children, Jefferson Medical College, Wilmington, DE
    • ,
  • Oluwakemi Badaki, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
    • ,
  • Joel A. Fein, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

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doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2006.01.003

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 38-51 , March 2006

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