Health Office Management, Position Statements
Excerpt from the American Academy of Pediatric Individual Medical Emergencies Occurring at School (16 page PDF):
Schools need to be prepared to deal with medical, behavioral, and traumatic emergencies that students or staff may experience. It is estimated that 10% to 25% of childhood injuries occur while the child is in school.1 In addition, the steady increase in the number of children with special health care needs attending mainstream schools means that there now exists a pool of students with a broad range of medical conditions that may require special equipment, preparation, and training of personnel; medications and supplies; and/or transport decisions and arrangements in the event of an emergency because of exacerbation of chronic conditions.
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