Pediatric surge:

• PPN/EMSC/Pediatric Disaster Centers of Excellence: resource compilation
• PPN/EMSC: prehospital-specific resources,
• ASPR TRACIE: Pediatric Surge Response page
• WRAP-EM: Just-in-Time Basic Clinical Guidance for Pediatric Respiratory Illness
• AAP: Pediatric Collections: Respiratory Syncytial Virus
• ACEP: Video: The Pediatric Tripledemic: How to Survive
• ACEP: Video: Managing RSV & Bronchiolitis
• Healthcare Ready: Pediatric Hospital Bed Utilization Map

COVID-19:

• CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists: New definition of MIS-C and a related webinar, Updates on Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C): Epidemiology, Case Definition, and COVID-19 Vaccination
• AAP: COVID Vaccine Checklist for Kids
• CDC: Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Approved or Authorized in the United States - updated with new recommendation for bivalent vaccine for children
• CDC and HHS: Vaccine finder website

Additional resources:

• EIIC: Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kit: Agitation
• AAP Section on Emergency Medicine and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians: Choosing Wisely: Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question (for pediatric care in EDs)
• ACEP: When to Go: Childhood Seizures
• ENA: Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC)
• FDA: New draft guidance for ensuring children are safeguarded when participating in clinical trials
• BulletPoint Project Free Course: Preventing Firearm Injury: What Clinicians Can Do
• FEMA Free Course: Responding to an Active Shooter: You Can Make a Difference
• NAEMSP - Mental Health Resources

Grantee resources:

• State Partnership Program Manager Welcome Kit
• Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kit: Agitation
• National Pediatric Readiness Project fact sheet

Events & conferences:

• EIIC: Pediatric suicidality: How EDs can change the paradigm webinar - Jan .12
• EIIC: ED STOP Suicide QI Collaborative registration deadline - Jan. 13
• NAEMSP: Annual Meeting - Jan. 23-28; note Pediatric Track on Jan. 27, featuring “Getting Ready for Kids...The National Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Program” with EMSC’s Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD; Manish Shah, MD; Katherine Remick, MD
• ACS Trauma Quality Improvement Program: Pediatric readiness webinar - Jan. 25
• Preparedness Summit - April 24–27
• FEMA’s Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium - June 5-7

Funding, research & development opportunities:

• ACEP/EMRA: National Outstanding Medical Student Award - deadline is Jan. 8
• ENA: 2023 Call for Content - deadline is Jan. 20
• FEMA: Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium proposals - deadline is Jan. 23
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Advancing Patient Safety through Design, Systems Engineering, and Health Services Research funding opportunity - deadline is Jan. 27

Career opportunity:

• EIIC Research Operations Associate – Baylor College of Medicine

Six stories worth reading this month:

1. Pediatricians and parents on the brink: This is their March 2020 - STAT news, Dec. 6
2. COVID-19 hospital admissions rising among children, especially those under 5  - AAP News, Dec. 8
3. A Rural Hospital’s Excruciating Choice: $3.2 Million a Year or Inpatient Care? - New York Times, Dec. 9
4. Hospital Financial Decisions Play a Role in the Critical Shortage of Pediatric Beds for RSV Patients - Kaiser Health News, Dec. 9
5. EMS Systems of Care - JEMS commentary, Dec. 13
6. Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness, NPR, Dec. 15