Pediatrics. 1998 May;101(5):941-3.
In rural America pediatricians can play a key role in the development, implementation, and ongoing supervision of emergency medical services for children (EMSC). Often the only pediatric resource for a large region, rural access pediatricians are more likely to treat pediatric emergencies in their own offices, and are a vital resource for rural physicians, or other rural health care professionals (physician assistants, nurse practitioners), and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to improve system-wide EMSC by providing education about issues from prevention to rehabilitation, technical assistance in protocol writing, hospital care, and dat accumulation, and as advocates for community and state legislation to support the goals of EMSC.
在美国农村地区，儿科医生在儿童急诊医疗服务（EMSC）的发展、实施及持续监督方面可发挥关键作用。农村地区的儿科医生往往是大片区域内唯一的儿科医疗资源，他们更有可能在自己的诊所治疗儿科急症，并且对于农村医生、其他农村医疗保健专业人员（医师助理、执业护士）以及急救医疗技术人员（EMT）而言，是极为重要的资源，能够通过提供从预防到康复等各方面问题的教育、协助撰写协议、提供医院护理及数据收集方面的技术支持，以及作为社区和州立法的倡导者以支持EMSC的目标，来提升全系统的EMSC水平。
