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The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the Emergency Nurses Association published the first joint policy statement to address pediatric patient safety in the emergency care setting yesterday. The statement and  accompanying technical report  emphasize the concept of pediatric readiness.

New resources round-up:

Policy Statements

• AAP: Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in Children, 2022–2023

Condition-Specific Resources

• EIIC: Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kit (PEAK): Agitation and PEAK: Pain
• CDC: Stay Up to Date with COVID-19 Vaccines Including Boosters
• CDC: Use of Recommended Health Care Measures to Prevent Selected Complications of Sickle Cell Anemia in Children and Adolescents
• CDC: How to Recognize and Report Polio, and Reinforce Routine Childhood Polio Vaccination webinar recording
• CDC: Severe Respiratory Illnesses Associated with Rhinoviruses and/or Enteroviruses Including EV-D688
• CDC: Monkeypox in a Young Infant 
• CDC: Naloxone Training (free CE available)

Disaster Resources

• AAP: Council on Children and Disasters "Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Makes a Difference" webinar recording

Other Resources

• HHS: 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers
• HHS: Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration
• NHTSA: Special Crash Investigations: Comprehensive Study of 2019 U.S. Pediatric Vehicular Hyperthermia Fatalities
• Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health: 2020-2021 National Survey of Children’s Health data
• Census Bureau: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2021

Upcoming events:

• AAP Annual Meeting - Oct. 7-11
• EMS World Expo - Oct. 10-14
• ACS Clinical Congress - Oct. 16-20
• National Pediatric Disaster Conference - Oct. 27 - 28
• National Conference on EMS - Nov. 3-5
• FemInPEM - Nov. 11
• National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference - Nov. 29 - Dec. 1
• ACS Trauma Quality Improvement Program Annual Conference - Dec. 11-13

Action Opportunities

• IHI is offering two opportunities focused on improving health equity: an Action Community (10 teams, applications due Oct. 21) and a Learning Network (40 teams, applications due Nov. 1). Learn more. 
• AAP is recruiting primary care practice teams for an Infection Prevention and Control Quality Improvement ECHO starting Jan. 2023. Learn more.

Five headlines worth reading this month:

1. ‘Disaster Mode’: Emergency Rooms Across Canada Close Amid Crisis - New York Times, Sept. 15
2. Covid shots for young kids arrived in June. Few have received them. - Washington Post, Sept. 18
3. Violence in Emergency Departments on the Rise - MedPage Today, Sept. 22
4. Mental Health Crisis Leads Hospitals to Create a New Type of ER - Bloomberg, Sept. 26
5. Embedded Bias: How Medical Records Show Discrimination - Kaiser Health News, Sept. 26