Featured resource: February is American Heart Month, it is a great time to review your CPR training and reduce disparities for cardiac arrests. This has also been brought into the spotlight recently with Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest on national television earlier this month. The American Heart Association has pediatric training options and Hands-Only CPR training and resources available.

Resources Round-Up:

Clinical resources:

• AAP: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity
• ACS: Mental Health and Substance Use Screening Guidelines
• ACEP: Managing RSV & Bronchiolitis video
• ENA: ENA Resource Library
• JAMA: Effect of Early High-Flow Nasal Oxygen vs Standard Oxygen Therapy on Length of Hospital Stay in Hospitalized Children With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: The PARIS-2 Randomized Clinical Trial

Disaster resources:

• PPN and EMSC: Pediatric Surge Prehospital Data
• PPN and EMSC: “Understanding the Pediatric Surge Crisis” Fact Sheet

EMSC grantee resources:

• EMSC Data Center: Weigh in Kilograms Fact Sheet
• EMSC Data Center: EMS for Children Survey Resources and Promotional Materials
• PPN and EMSC: “Understanding the Pediatric Surge Crisis” Fact Sheet
• EIIC: PEAK: Agitation

Other resources:

• Federal Interagency Committee on EMS Meeting recording
• NEMSMA: International Journal of Paramedicine Inaugural Issue
• EIIC: “Pediatric Suicide: How EDs can change the paradigm” recording

Upcoming Events, Conferences, and Deadlines:

• EIIC: ED STOP Suicide QI Collaborative kick-off - Feb. 2
• AcademyHealth: “Research on Prehospital Diagnostic Delay 2023 Call for Proposals Applicant Information Session” webinar - Feb. 2
• ENA: Pediatric Readiness Award submission deadline for nominations - Feb. 15
• National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference speaker submission deadline - March 20
• ACEP: Advanced Pediatric Emergency Medicine Assembly - March 31 - April 3
• Preparedness Summit - April 24–27
• FEMA: Emergency Management Higher Education Symposium - June 5-7

Career opportunities:

• EIIC: Research Operations Associate - Baylor College of Medicine

Five stories worth reading and one worth watching this month:

1. Why Saving Kids is Bad Business in America - New York Times, Jan. 4 - cites EMSC pediatric readiness statistic
2. Consumption of Marijuana Edibles Surges Among Children, Study Finds - New York Times, Jan. 4
3. Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Department Recognized as Pediatric Receiving Facility - Wyoming News Now, Jan. 19 - covers EMSC Wyoming facility recognition program
4. High pediatric readiness among EDs reduces mortality rates - Contemporary Pediatrics, Jan. 23 - covers EMSC Targeted Issues Grant study
5. Declare Pediatric Health Emergencies Like Lives Depend On It - Health Affairs, Jan. 24