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Upcoming events, conferences, deadlines:
- National Biodefense Science Board public meeting - May 4
- National Rural Health Association & EMSC webinar: "Saving Lives in Rural America through Pediatric Readiness" - May 9
- National EMS Advisory Council Meeting - May 10-11
- AHI Virtual 2023 Conference on Adolescent Health - May 11 - 12
- ACEP & EMSC webinar, "PRQC: A value proposition for optimizing pediatric emergency care" - May 23
- EMSC Day - May 24, with a webinar for EMS clinicians at 5 pm CT
- FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium - June 5 - 7
- Pediatric Readiness QI Collaborative deadline to register - June 15
- NAEMSE Symposium - Aug. 14-19
- Save the Date: EMSC 2023 All-Grantee Meeting - Sept. 11-14
- EMS World Expo - Sept. 18–22
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Striving for the Best Possible Systems: A Conversation with E. Brooke Lerner, PhD
- May 31, 2023
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E. Brooke Lerner, PhD, FAEMS, co-principal investigator for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network’s …
Tackling the challenges of treating pediatric mental health in emergency settings
- April 27, 2023
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Youth in America over the last decade have experienced mental and behavioral health issues at …
PECARN and the AAP febrile infant guideline
- March 2, 2023
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Caring for babies with fevers is complicated because some of these infants may have life-threatening …
PECARN: Low Risk of Bacterial Meningitis in Young Febrile Infants
- November 30, 2022
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Given the ongoing surge crisis, emergency providers may be seeing an increase in infants with …
PECARN Meeting Highlights Advances, Future Work
- October 2, 2022
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Improving emergency care for children – whether in hospital or prehospital settings – starts with …
Study Targets Improving Prehospital Asthma Treatment for Children
- October 2, 2022
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The Charlotte, Houston, and Milwaukee Prehospital (CHaMP) node has a second clinical study, “Treating Respiratory …
PECARN’s WPEMR node advances mentorship, data linkages, enrollment
- August 31, 2022
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The West/Southwest Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research (WPEMR) node – one of the seven nodes within …
Study investigates child abuse incidence during the pandemic
- June 29, 2022
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When the world shut down due to COVID-19, families lost access to resources and children …
PECARN: C-SPINE study - developing a risk assessment tool & identifying modifiable health care disparities in children with cervical spine injuries
- May 31, 2022
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Cervical spine injuries (CSI) are serious but rare events in children. In prehospital settings, spinal …
PECARN study sheds new light on treatment for children with diabetic ketoacidosis
- January 31, 2022
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A recent Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) study, published last fall in Pediatrics, …