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.
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Officials said the dispatcher who should have seen the call got up to go on break and that caused a four-minute delay in dispatching an ambulance
The explosion left the boys, ages 12, 11 and 10, with serious injuries
Eight students from the bus that got hit and seven students from the other bus were taken to hospitals with minor injuries
A 9-year-old boy received 10 stitches where a chunk of flesh had been bitten from his arm; the 16-year-old kicked it away before it attacked his other two cousins
He stabbed one in the neck and the other in the hand during art class, and both students received medical attention for minor injuries
They failed twice to respond to the call and a neighboring service had to be sent
The girl was was burned over more than 60 percent of her body on Nov. 9 when she went down a slide that someone covered in gasoline
Police say her death was an accident; the dogs were playing and didn’t mean to hurt her
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
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