The use of telemedicine to provide pediatric critical care consultations to pediatric trauma patients admitted to a remote trauma intensive care unit: a preliminary report

Injured pediatric patients in remote communities are often cared for at trauma centers that may be underserved with respect to pediatric specialty services. The objective of this study is to describe a pilot telemedicine project that allows a remote trauma center's adult intensive care unit to obtain nontrauma, nonsurgical-related pediatric critical care consultations for acutely injured children. Nonconcurrent cohort design. A remote, level II trauma center's shock-trauma intensive care unit and a tertiary care children's hospital pediatric intensive care unit. Analyses were conducted on cohorts of pediatric trauma patients (