Trauma is the most frequent cause of death in children over one year of age, and liver laceration secondary to blunt abdominal injury is frequently the major cause of hemorrhagic shock. In the… (More)
We studied the response to anoxia in young dogs in order to provide some clinical and laboratory guidelines with which to gauge duration of respiratory and cardiorespiratory arrest in children.… (More)
Liver laceration is the most common cause of mortality following blunt abdominal trauma in children. To determine the optimal route for volume expansion in the clinical setting of blunt abdominal… (More)
We tested a 20-gauge, 2 1/2-inch spinal needle and a 13-gauge, 3 1/2-inch bone marrow needle with Ringer's lactate delivered by gravity and 300 mm Hg pressure in vitro and in hypovolemic puppies to… (More)
Immediate aggressive fluid resuscitation of a child with life-threatening hemorrhagic shock provides the difference between life and death. Obtaining venous access in the hypovolemic child sometimes… (More)
Several authors have reported flow rates for various catheters in vitro, but these studies may not reflect differences in vivo because of intravascular pressure, valves, and/or venous tortuosity,… (More)
The recommended rates for closed-chest cardiac compressions during CPR are based on physiologic variations with increasing age rather than experimental data. Using puppies, we compared mean arterial… (More)