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'Mock' drills boost child resuscitation skills in 'failing' adult emergency rooms

Following up on a study that found widespread failures in simulated child resuscitation among emergency room staff, a research team from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Duke University Medical Center reports that it doesn't take much more than a mock trauma drill to diagnose the shortcomings and brief refreshers to get ER workers' performance sharp again. Their report appears in the November issue of Pediatric Emergency Care.

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