Caring for and assessing critically ill pediatric patients brings added stress and anxiety to all emergency providers. In recent years, we have had the added burden of the combination of COVID-19 and ...

Dr. Chelsea Kadish and Kyle Goodknight explain why EMS providers who consider prehospital pediatric CPAP too aggressive should embrace the modality as safe and effective for even the youngest patients ...

Hormones are chemicals within the body that dictate how other parts of the body function. For example, certain hormones produced in the brain of a child determine the child’s growth, puberty, and ...

We conducted a retrospective analysis of 799 children who visited our PED and collected data on age, sex, disease severity, expense, and disposition. We analyzed the correlations between PAT and ...

Fractures in very young children that are not consistent with history or for which no history of injury is given are concerning for abuse. For children in whom abuse is suspected, a close examination ...

Have you ever felt as if you were on a carousel that spins you into the same social dilemmas over and over? Perhaps you find yourself blamed or trampled on by others. Or maybe you are repeatedly ...

Dr. Carroll is a pediatrician and the president of the health policy organization AcademyHealth. I haven’t actively practiced pediatrics for a few years, but one of my favorite things to do is to be ...

While the majority of emergency medical services (EMS) and fire-rescue agencies provide emergency care to children, pediatric calls are rare. In fact, because many agencies see fewer than eight ...

An international research team led by Tell Bennett, MD, MS, professor of biomedical informatics and pediatric critical care at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, released new diagnostic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Almost one in five patients with MIS-C based on an initial definition no longer fit the definition. Children may ...