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
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
The boy’s condition is improving, but he remains hospitalized after falling out of a boat on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride
The baby made a “horrible gasping noise” as several of her ribs were broken and there was damage to her lungs
The boy swallowed a camera battery and died after suffering cuts to his esophagus and gastric irritation
He’s been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for over a year; his family learned the chemotherapy isn’t working and he only has weeks to live
Students were vomiting and multiple people were carried on stretchers to ambulances
CPAP is not just for adults anymore
He made the inexpensive yet functional prosthetic hand for his son who was born without fingers on one of his hands
Responders were able to locate the part of the nose and took it to the hospital where the boy was being treated
A paramedic on the other end of the phone talked the father through the delivery
The child fell through a shattered windshield and landed on a combine machine’s header
The boy, who is still being treated at a hospital, recalls the moment of terror and feeling a sharp pain in his stomach
The babysitter apparently left a handgun on a table in the living room before going to take a nap
Parents will accompany their kids, and will be teamed with a paramedic and an emergency medical technician during the holiday event
EMT’s say she ‘ran out in front’ of the ambulance and the driver tried to swerve around her
Remaining students were either treated at the scene and released to their parents, or were sent back to their classrooms
The mother ripped off her pants just in time to deliver the baby girl, who she caught with her left hand
The kit contains field dressings, tourniquets, and gauze that could save a child’s life in an emergency
The U.S. House passed legislation this year that would give states that come up with policies to make epinephrine available in schools special preference when they apply for asthma-related grants
A girl spotted the lollipop stick in his mouth and pulled it out of his airway when the friends found him colapsed in the school gym
The child was not injured, but four others were taken to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries