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Thank you for participating in 2023 EMS Week and EMS for Children Day activities! We look forward to celebrating with you again in 2024. Each year, National EMS Week recognizes the work of EMS clinicians. …

The EMSC Pulse newsletter is a digest of news and activities across the Emergency Medical Services for Children program. Each issue also includes information about the broader pediatric emergency care community. EMSC Pulse is published …

Healthcare providers are in a unique position to identify and prevent child abuse, and this clinical report provides guidance to the practitioner regarding indicators .

This 2019 focused update to the American Heart Association neonatal resuscitation guidelines is based on 2 evidence reviews recently completed under the direction of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Neonatal Life Support Task Force.

Emergency nurses are in a key position to inform, educate, and advocate for patients and their families regarding advance care planning.2 It is important that emergency nurses participate in the shared decision-making (SDM) process, which …

Recommendations for the care of prepubescent pediatric sexual abuse patients

Management of pediatric pain from medical procedures is of great importance for improving both patient care and experience

Roles and responsibilities of a pediatric emergency care physician coordinator.

Provide awareness to healthcare workers of human trafficking and the characteristics of those it victimizes

Why is a Pediatric Emergency Coordinator (PECC) important?

A policy statement to offer family members the option, when appropriate, of being at the bedside during invasive procedures (IP) and/or resuscitation interventions (RI).

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians support promoting patient dignity, comfort, and autonomy; recognizing the patient and family as key decision-makers in the patient’s medical care; recognizing the patient’s …

The purpose of this document is to provide healthcare professionals with key facts and recommendations for treating pain in children. This summary was co-produced by the pain content advisors for TREKK, Dr. Samina Ali of …

The purpose of this document is to provide healthcare professionals with key facts and recommendations for treating pain in children. This summary was co-produced by the pain content advisors for TREKK, Dr. Samina Ali of …

Critical Crossroads was conceived as a partnership to support the mission of improving emergency care for children in mental health crises, with acknowledgment of the disproportionate burden in rural areas, where services are often limited. …

The purpose of this document is to provide healthcare professionals with key facts and recommendations for procedural pain management in children. This summary was co-produced by the pain content advisors for TREKK, Dr. Samina Ali …

Pediatric information integrated throughout the model guidelines. Pediatric-specific guidelines start on page 144 (BRUE, Bronchiolitis, Croup, Neonatal Reususcitation, Childbirth). Additional pediatric-specific information includes: Pediatric Vitals/GCS (page 16); Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale (page 17); Pediatric Syncope …

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

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Field Trauma Triage Guidelines (FTTG), for use by clinicians nationwide, provide evidence-based criteria in making care and transport decisions for patients with traumatic injuries in the prehospital setting.

This model protocol incorporates elements of an evidence-based guideline for prehospital analgesia in trauma and evidence-based guidelines for prehospital pain management created using the National Prehospital Evidence-Based Guideline Model Process.