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.
You are asked to respond to the nurse’s office at a local high school
The Pediatric Easy Dosing System aims to eliminate medication administration errors in pediatric care
You responded to a residence for a report of a 4-year-old child seizing; did you correctly assess and treat the child?
Police report said the 2-month-old was unresponsive when an ambulance crew arrived at the family’s home on Nov. 7
Girl was airlifted to a hospital Sunday night after rescue teams cut her out of the 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that had been upside down in a culvert since Friday night
Firefighters at the scene and in the ambulance worked together quickly to save boy’s life
The girl either climbed in or was put in the washing machine Saturday night
A comprehensive examination of alprazolam uses, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, administration routes and dosing for adult and pediatric patients
Los Angeles Unified School District spokesman Tom Waldman says the student was briefly revived after passing out Friday night at Fremont High School
Dispatchers received emergency calls at 5:43 p.m. Thursday that a toddler was in an accident at a condominium complex pool
A 6-year-old boy was hit Wednesday morning in front of his school
Boy dies as he’s shipped to 3rd hospital in 11 hours - and parents file suit claiming negligence
Glenn County Sheriff’s Lt. Rich Warren said it’s possible a cow was protecting her calves and charged the girl
Josh Guy, 16, jumped into a pool Friday night and retrieved the 9-year-old girl, then placed her on the pool deck and started CPR
Boy is being given food and water by search and rescue workers until a medic can be lowered by helicopter to assess his health and he is airlifted out
The emergency worker responded to a middle school bus crash in Fremont, Neb.
After decades of shake-it-off attitudes about blows to the head, there’s been a sea change in how the sports world views a concussion
Texas House Bill 2038 requires each public high school to establish a concussion oversight team, comprised of at least one physician and at least one other medical member
A spokesman for the Rockland County Emergency Operations Center says the child is in serious condition at a hospital burn unit
EMT Ed Burke was on his way to a training session when he heard the emergency call
Workers use tools, chain saw to free injured 5-year-old
The two EMTS got a call at about 9:45 a.m. saying a woman was in labor, stuck in traffic with her husband
Studies of near-drownings in cold water have found that survival depends on many factors including a person’s age, water temperature, time spent underwater and how fast CPR is given
When Doug Knutzen carried the boy from the surf and handed him to medics, the veteran rescuer feared the worst
The guidelines replace a more restrictive policy based on old thinking that kids were more vulnerable to heat stress than adults
Paramedics were called to Nors Mill Park in Coventry at 4.15pm on Friday, and an air ambulance crew was scrambled to the scene
Authorities say the boy had dug about five feet below the surface of the beach when the surrounding sand caved in on him
The girl had earlier been riding on the shoulders of her grandfather, who was also unconscious at the bottom of the pool
The little girl was in no mood to wait for the medics, so Trooper Scott Walker did the honors, assisting the mother to the backseat of the family car and delivering the baby at 2:51 a.m
Stephen Fowks administered CPR on 14-month-old until paramedics could arrive
Firefighters using CPR tried to revive the victims, and managed to get a pulse from at least two of the children, but all five died
Police: Emergency medical personnel at the scene, and the boys mother, worked together to pull off a miracle