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Pediatric Exit Care Instructions
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Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio has created a set of medical and psychosocial exit care instructions for children or adolescents with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 who are discharged from the urgent care, emergency room, or hospital for home isolation. Rainbow Babies and Children's has provided these resources in a Word document format so that individual hospitals may download for use with their own logo or formatting.
**Currently Under Revision. Please check back soon
(Click each link to download.)
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POPCoRN (Pediatric Overflow Planning Contingency Response Network) is a multi-institutional collaboration to help support the safe offloading of adult patients to pediatric facilities. Their mission is for pediatric providers and health systems to have access to tools and the community necessary to care for adult patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Downloadable Checklists and Tools
Please also see our PPE, Calculators and Essential Skills page for PPE burn rate calculators, videos on proper intubation / bag-valve-mask setup and more.
Patient Care Strategies for Scarce Resource Situations
Minnesota Department of Health. Emergency Preparedness and Response
COVID-19 Healthcare Planning Checklist
Assistant Secretary for Disaster Preparedness (ASPR)
From the Literature: Recommended Reading
Mary Van Beusekom, CIDRAP News. Apr 21, 2020. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/unlike-any-challenge-helping-families-cope-amid-pandemic
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Charlene A. Wong, David Ming, Gary Maslow and Elizabeth J. Gifford. Pediatrics April 2020, e20200973; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-0973
Jaime G Deville, MD, Eunkyung Song, MD, Christopher P Ouellette, MD, UpToDate. May 15, 2020. https://www.uptodate.com/contents/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-considerations-in-children
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Children and Adolescents A Systematic Review
Riccardo Castagnoli, MD; Martina Votto, MD; Amelia Licari, MD; et al. JAMA Pediatr. Published online April 22, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1467
Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric Intensive Care Units
Lara S. Shekerdemian, MD, MHA; Nabihah R. Mahmood, MD; Katie K. Wolfe, MD; et al for the International COVID-19 PICU Collaborative
JAMA Pediatr. Published online May 11, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.1948
Danielle G. Dooley, MD, MPhil; Asad Bandealy, MD, MPH; Megan M. Tschudy, MD, MPH. JAMA Pediatr. Published online May 13, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.2065
COVID-19 in Children in the United States: Intensive Care Admissions, Estimated Total Infected, and Projected Numbers of Severe Pediatric Cases in 2020
Pathak, Elizabeth Barnett PhD, MSPH; Salemi, Jason L. PhD, MPH; Sobers, Natasha PhD, MBBS, MPH, FRSPH; Menard, Janelle PhD, MPH; Hambleton, Ian R. PhD
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: April 10, 2020 - Volume Publish Ahead of Print - Issue -
doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001190
Interim Guidance for Basic and Advanced Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19
Full Title: Interim Guidance for Basic and Advanced Life Support in Adults, Children, and Neonates With Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19: From the Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee and Get With the Guidelines®-Resuscitation Adult and Pediatric Task Forces of the American Heart Association in Collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Association for Respiratory Care, American College of Emergency Physicians, The Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists, and American Society of Anesthesiologists: Supporting Organizations: American Association of Critical Care Nurses and National EMS Physicians
Edelson et al. Circulation. April 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.047463
Timing of Community Mitigation and Changes in Reported COVID-19 and Community Mobility — Four U.S. Metropolitan Areas, February 26–April 1, 2020
Lasry et al., CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (April 13, 2020)
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e2.htm?s_cid=mm6915e2_x
Centers for Disease Control: Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children — United States, February 12–April 2, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. ePub: 6 April 2020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6914e4external icon.
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