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Based on the findings of the Eastern Great Lakes Pediatric Consortium for Disaster Response Education Team this summary lays out the need for a whole child, whole community and whole population concept of operations that …

FEATURED RESOURCEChecklist of Essential Pediatric Domains and Considerations for Every Hospital’s Disaster Preparedness PoliciesThis checklist is an update to the original 2014 checklist and seeks to expand its utility. It is intended as a tool …

Children have unique physiological, emotional, and developmental characteristics that require specialized emergency care. Pediatric Readiness is ensuring that every EMS agency and emergency department has the pediatric-specific champions, competencies, policies, equipment, and other resources needed …

This video and discussion guide were developed by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC) in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA). While the information is hospital-centric, the concepts could be applied to …

This Toolkit was created to assist parents and caregivers in their efforts to support the EMSC Program at the national and state levels. The guide contains information about the history of the EMS system. It …

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the needs, preferences and goals of patients and families.

Dr. Ilene Claudius discusses agitation in the neurodivergent patient with Dr. Alice Kuo, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and of …

Suicide and suicidal behavior among youth and young adults is a major public health crisis. Clinicians, adults working with youth in school and community settings, families and peers can play a critical role in identifying …

The PEAK: Pain podcast series focuses on different aspects of assessing, managing, and supporting the pediatric patient in pain. This series was coproduced by the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC) …

The EIIC Disaster Domain seeks to support EMSC grantees and stakeholders to better prepare for disasters in a way that takes the specific needs of children into consideration. We offer a variety of resources and …

Dr. Mike Patrick, Dr DJ Scherzer, and child life specialist, Courtney Hall discuss pediatric pain from the family perspective. Acute pain not only impacts children; it also affects the entire family. Learn why and how …

Collection of resources created by New England EMSC to help assist with the care of pediatric patients who present to the emergency department with a behavioral health complaint and are awaiting placement or further evaluation.

This resource includes various strategies that can be utilized to de-escalate an agitated pediatric patient.

Dr. Julia Magana from the Pediatric Acute Care Education Sessions (PACES) program at UC Davis Health shares shares four tips to reduce the pain of IV placement and other painful procedures

Dr. Julia Magana from the Pediatric Acute Care Education Sessions (PACES) program at UC Davis Health shares tips on how to help a child stay still and how to hold a child during a painful …

Resources developed to assist EMS providers with an approach to better understand how to provide “next steps" including self-care when a child dies due to severe trauma or illness in the prehospital environment.

Presented February 20, 2019 Fatality Review personnel, caregivers, and workers dealing with bereaved families often express their need to know more about how to communicate with and provide services for families following an infant or …

Kids, pain, and the emergency department can be a set up for disaster. In this podcast, three pediatric specialists get into why that is and how we can all be better at treating kids in …