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.
Your patient takes a medication you aren’t familiar with and needs to be treated using a protocol you haven’t reviewed recently; do you have the right apps on your phone to assist?
You are dispatched to a report of a patient suffering from a seizure
The APGAR score is considered the standard in newborn evaluation
After police confronted a felon holding his newborn last month, the infant ended up on the floor with a skull fracture
Rescuers started scouring the wilderness from the air and on the ground on Sunday night; they were found huddled around a fire near their overturned car
His mother said the school wouldn’t allow her son to carry his own inhaler, and confiscated it on several occasions when he tried to use it
A couple and four children went to play in the snow in the remote mountains, and didn’t return after a night of sub-zero temperatures
Timothy Jaccard decided to change his career path after responding to four separate scenes of babies who were found abandoned and not breathing
While he was running next to the bus, the boy tripped and was subsequently run over by the rear right tires
As an EMT, Patrick Heusing had only been in this situation once before, and this time was completely different for him
A dump truck hit the back of the school bus at an intersection, but it’s not yet clear who was at fault
The infant was taken to the hospital in a squad car instead of waiting for an ambulance to arrive; the baby might have a minor head injury
“I kept pressing 811 instead,” one student said. “I was shaking and nervous. When I finally got them, I was talking too loud and I said, ‘My friend just had a seizure’”
The driver and about 15 students were transported to the hospital after the bus in which they were in crashed and came to rest on its side
The baby, born unexpectedly at 26 weeks, was the smallest patient the responders had ever worked on
After about one minute of rescue breaths, the blue child began to slowly breathe on his own
A typing error reportedly prevented an ambulance from reaching a toddler who then suffered a fatal heart attack
The father of the 14-year-old boy shot and killed in 2009 has asked for the crime scene image to be removed
One emergency medical worker suffered a broken leg during the evacuation after jumping from a wall to get to another part of the school
One doctor said the mistaken death declaration could be down to a soft heart beat at the time of the birth
Devin Kohlman was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2012; with not long to live, hundreds of residents helped make his dying wish come true
He has an enormous tumor on his neck that stretches across his chest, inhibits his movement and threatens his life; the drug has been reducing the size of the tumor
The boy was playing in his front yard when he got something in his foot, said to be a cactus needle; he either bent over or sat on the road to get it out
Investigators concluded she had not been fed since October 24 and her body had been burned after being stuffed in a garbage can
The two-year-old boy was hospitalized Saturday night and is expected to be released Tuesday after eating the possibly tainted Smarties
The two-month-old died after her mother passed out on her while breastfeeding
The child reportedly fell while carrying a .bolt-action 410 shotgun
Employees immediately began CPR on the 3 year-old, and medics took over when they arrived
The family believes he could be the heaviest baby born in the U.S. this year
