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The accuracy of Broselow pediatric emergency tape in estimating body weight of pediatric patients

Amal H. ALSulaibikh, Fahad I. Al-Ojyan, Khalid N. Al-Mulhim, Thabit S. Alotaibi, Faisal O. Alqurashi, Latifa F. Almoaibed, Mohye H. ALwahhas and Mohammad A. ALjumaan
Saudi Medical Journal August 2017, 38 (8) 798-803; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.19448
Amal H. ALSulaibikh
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Fahad I. Al-Ojyan
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khalid N. Al-Mulhim
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Thabit S. Alotaibi
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Faisal O. Alqurashi
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Latifa F. Almoaibed
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohye H. ALwahhas
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammad A. ALjumaan
From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 38 no. 8 798-803
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.8.19448
PubMed 
28762431

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received February 19, 2017
  • Accepted May 17, 2017
  • Published online August 1, 2017.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Amal H. ALSulaibikh, MD⇑,
  2. Fahad I. Al-Ojyan, MD,
  3. Khalid N. Al-Mulhim, MD,
  4. Thabit S. Alotaibi, MD,
  5. Faisal O. Alqurashi, MD,
  6. Latifa F. Almoaibed, MD,
  7. Mohye H. ALwahhas, MD and
  8. Mohammad A. ALjumaan, MD
  1. From the Emergency Medicine Department (ALSulaibikh, Alotaibi, ALwahhas, ALjumaan), the Department of Pediatric (Alqurashi, Almoaibed), King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, the Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Ojyan), King Fahd Specialist Hospital Dammam, Emergency Medicine Department (Al-Mulhim), College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhassa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Amal H. ALSulaibikh, Emergency Medicine Department, King Fahd University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: asulaibeekh{at}uod.edu.sa ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-0877
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