Pediatric Care
Prepare for the unique and often difficult challenges of pediatric patient assessment and treatment with our collection of expert-written columns, original video and news.
A detailed patient history and physical examination inform this diagnosis of exclusion after a brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE)
An AEMT recounts his first pediatric code, which occurred outside his home while off-duty
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Four people, who organized the outing for 47 summer campers despite cyclone warnings, have been detained
More than half of children who’ve died from heat strokes in vehicles since 1998 were forgotten by their parents or caregivers
Safe Haven founder paramedic Monica Kelsey will create a legal fund to defend women who could face charges from Indiana Department of Child Services
Divers found the toddler’s body 16 hours after authorities first got the call that a reptile had taken the boy at Seven Seas Lagoon
A 2-year-old boy was dragged into the water by an alligator near a Walt Disney World hotel Tuesday night
Most EMS providers have witnessed or been involved with a medication error attributable to poor system design and lack of safety behaviors
Wheezes, retractions, tachypnea and altered mental status lead to a quick assessment of asthma
Indiana Dept. of Children Services warns Safe Haven Baby Box to not install any more boxes at fire stations
Utah police arrest the girl’s parents, who called 911 after finding the girl unresponsive, on suspicion of ‘child endangerment’
Six children were killed, and 26 others were injured after a school bus veered into a canal
Paramedics were called because Ohio police suspected the intoxicated mom might have also been having a diabetic emergency
A police officer and his wife helped stabilize the boy’s head and neck while waiting for paramedics to arrive
A Texas boy and two friends were running after disturbing a wasp nest to avoid being stung
The boy survived alone for a week in an old military shelter after his parents left him to teach him a lesson
The EMT used a pipe wrench to break a window in the car to gain access to the boy, who was sweat and going in and out of consciousness
An off-duty firefighter has been credited with keeping the child alive and getting quick medical help to the others
A special zoo response team shot and killed a gorilla, that grabbed and dragged the boy after he fell into the gorilla exhibit moat
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Paramedics say two of the children have serious but non-life-threatening injuries
The eighth-grader was set to graduate from middle school this week
A 35-year-old man and his two children, ages 7 and 1, died instantly of blunt-force trauma
Crews applied a tourniquet at the top of the 12-year-old boy’s right thigh in order to stop the bleeding en route
The teacher said he started to feel numbness in his hand before falling to the floor
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The children’s mother found them in their bedroom and she attempted CPR
Both were taken to the hospital, where the toddler was pronounced dead; the woman is in critical condition
The law will help reduce the time it takes to get the critical medication to a person having an anaphylactic reaction
Most injuries studied were mild, but all concussions are potentially serious and researchers say the trend raises public health and safety concerns
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