Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine, Third Faculty of Medicine |
2018
Abstract
The paediatric protocol is a way of ensuring that health workers who do not routinely deal with children will use appropriate equipment and administer safe doses of medication when treating children. It is conceptually based on the original work of James Broselow and Robert Luton, who in 1985 described the correlation between the height and weight of children to the 50th percentile.
On this basis a so-called Broselow tape was created where the children are divided into coloured categories according to their height. The paediatric protocol is a Czech adaptation of this tape.