Policy & Position Statements

EM Pediatric Education Requires An Emergency Medicine Perspective

Transition from the current one-size-fits-all approach of pediatric education, towards pediatric educational formats and materials tailored to the unique needs of emergency physicians, will provide the most rapid growth in pediatric proficiency for EM residents and practicing emergency physicians.

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Strengthening The Pediatric Work Force

Movement toward closer collaboration and working alliances between the two specialties of EM and PEM will be key to improving the state of pediatric emergency care delivery in the United States.

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Expanded Role for Tertiary Hospital Pediatric Emergency Departments

A community hospital emergency physician should never feel left to go it alone when faced with challenging pediatric cases. Expert PEM telehealth or phone consultants should always be available for help with diagnosis and management. PEM-trained experts are already present 24/7 in tertiary pediatric emergency departments, and could easily fill this role.

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Pediatric Leadership Fellowships for Emergency Physicians

Less than 23% of community hospital emergency departments have any PEM-trained specialists. In view of this current situation, PEPNETWORK endorses the concept and development of Emergency Medicine Pediatric Leadership (EMPL) Fellowships to prepare a select group of emergency physicians to assume pediatric leadership roles at their community hospital emergency departments.

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Position of Director of Pediatrics for Non-Pediatric and Community Hospital Emergency Departments

In the absence of adequate numbers of subspecialty trained PEM physicians within the pediatric emergency care workforce to assume pediatric leadership roles in community hospital emergency departments, this post should alternatively be filled by qualified EM-trained physicians.

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Directors of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education for Emergency Medicine Residency Training Programs

A position of Director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Education should also be created within all academic emergency residency training programs.

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The Steven Z. Miller Community Hospital Emergency Pediatrics Leadership Academy

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How Comfortable Are Community-Hospital Emergency Physicians And Nurses With Emergency Pediatrics?

Physicians surveyed frequently commented that symptoms displayed by children are so subtle that sepsis and septic shock are often missed. Source: iMedPub Journals
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Cardiac Arrest Survival in Pediatric and General Emergency Departments

Analysis of the difference in survival rate of pediatric patients suffering from out of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) reveals a higher survival rate for children suffering from nontraumatic OHCA at pediatric emergency departments than at general emergency departments. Source: AAP
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Pediatric Myocarditis: The Great Masquerader! Clinical Presentations and Early Predictors for Poor Outcomes.

Diagnosis different from myocarditis was made in 52% of cases. 31% were categorized as respiratory infection (bronchiolitis, pneumonia, and upper respiratory tract infection), 17% as gastrointestinal infection, 2%as urinary tract infection, and 2% as infantile colic. Source: WJCC
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Pediatric Sepsis: A Challenging Diagnosis for Community-Hospital Emergency Physicians!

Due to the physiological differences between children and adults, it is now evident that pediatric sepsis is an entity distinct from adult sepsis. This article describes the challenges community hospital emergency providers face with diagnosis.Source: HHS Public Access
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How Well Do Vital Signs Identify Children With Serious Infections In Pediatric Emergency Care?

This UK study demonstrates that pediatric vital signs can be used to help identify children with serious infections in pediatric emergency departments and offer similar diagnostic performance to more complicated triage tools. Source: BMJ Journals
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