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ABC News Features: The Color Coding Kids Hospital SystemBy Denise Dador —ABC Eyewitness News Health Specialist 
Color coding system measures When it comes to children, there's a fine line between giving the right amount of medicine and overdosing. But there's a method of measurement that's taking the guesswork out of giving medicine to kids in the ER and at home. A child who needs life-saving medication fast puts emergency room doctors on the spot. "If a child comes in cardiac arrest and you don't know how much they weigh, you guess their weight. You try to remember the dose. You calculate the dose. All of that takes time and takes away from care," said Dr. Robert Luten, pediatric ER physician, University of Florida. So Dr. Luten and his colleague Dr. Broselow developed the Broselow-Luten system. It puts a child's measurement in a color category. The Color Coding Kids Hospital System
A system of pediatric emergency treatment utilizing color-coded therapeutic pathways designed to increase efficiencies while reducing medical errors. Each pathway is targeted by a specific set of clinically descriptive “key words” ordered by the physician. This initiates a pre-determined and standardized color-coded process resulting in safe, yet timely, therapeutic intervention. In a broader sense, it defines color as the universal language of safety throughout the entire spectrum of acute pediatric care.
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