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Teaching technical skills in pediatrics

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Technical skills are an important and difficult part of managing a very sick or injured child. However, technical procedures are more often learned from experience than practice. This article reviews a variety of technical skills and procedures commonly performed in a pediatric emergency department. Each technical procedure can be practiced using live or artificial model for simulation.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

    Steven M. Selbst (Associate Director), M. Douglas Baker, Louis M. Bell, Kathy N. Shaw, Cynthia Briede, G. Anthony Woodward & Stephen Ludwig

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Selbst, S.M., Baker, M.D., Bell, L.M. et al. Teaching technical skills in pediatrics. Indian J Pediatr 56, 35–54 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02749704

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