Does an asymptomatic child removed from a clandestine laboratory require urgent evaluation in a hospital emergency department (ED)?
Prehospital care providers (EMT’s or paramedics) should evaluate all children removed from a clandestine laboratory immediately to determine if they are truly asymptomatic. A truly asymptomatic child will likely not require immediate evaluation in the ED, but should see a primary care physician within 24 hours of removal from the laboratory for a complete assessment of health and developmental status. All symptomatic children and children not evaluated on scene by emergency medical personnel who are removed from a clandestine laboratory should be evaluated in the closest appropriate hospital ED. How should a child removed from a drug endangered environment be cared for? All children removed from drug endangered environments need as much, if not more, love and kindness as any other child placed away from their biological home. Often children in drug endangered environments are witnesses to violence and may even be victims of neglect and abuse. Therefore, they need an environment that en
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