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Changes in Pediatric Inpatient Capabilities and Emergency Department Pediatric Readiness
2025
· University of California San Francisco,
· University of Texas at Austin,
· University of Utah
This research article describes how many hospitals in the US have lost special units for children between 2013 and 2021. Hospitals that lost these pediatric …
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Human-Centered Design to Create an Emergency Care Action Plan for Children With Medical Complexity
2025
· University of Vermont,
· University of Massachusetts,
· Columbia University,
· University of Rochester,
· Yale University,
· University of California San Francisco
This article discusses the application of Human-Centered Design (HCD) principles to create an Emergency Care Action Plan (ECAP) for Children with Medical Complexity (CMC). The …
Disaster at a Distance: Impact of 9.11.01 Televised News Coverage on Mothers’ and Children’s Health
This article explores how watching news about the 9/11 attacks affected mothers and their children. It describes that even though these families were not near …
Weather-Related Pediatric Fatalities in the United States: 2001 to 2021
2025
· University of California San Francisco,
· University of Louisville,
· Norton Children's Hospital,
· University of Utah
This study analyzes pediatric fatalities related to weather events in the US over the past 21 years. It found that weather events were associated with …
Management of Severe Thermal Burns in the Acute Phase in Adults and Children
2020
· University of California San Francisco,
· Metz-Thionville Hospital Mercy,
· Hospital Armand Trousseau Ap-Hp,
· Lille University Hospital,
· Percy Military Teaching Hospital,
· Saint-Joseph Saint-Luc Hospital
The article explains how to care for severe burns in both adults and children during the early stages. It describes important steps like cooling the …
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Disaster Simulation Curriculum: The 5-Minute Trauma Assessment for Pediatric Residents (TRAP-5)
2020
· University of Washington
This study presents a simulation-based curriculum, created for pediatric residents to practice rapid trauma assessment skills. The curriculum involves scenarios with manikins portraying injured 5-year-olds. …
30 Years After the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: Time for Reflection and Re-evaluation of Current Disaster Preparedness Plans
This article discusses the health effects 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Cleanup workers faced higher risks of leukemia, heart disease, and cataracts. Children …
Moving Because of Unaffordable Housing and Disrupted Social Safety Net Access Among Children
2024
· University of California, Los Angeles,
· University of California San Francisco,
· Johns Hopkins University,
· Drexel University,
· University of St Andrews,
· University of Maryland
This article describes how families with children are sometimes forced to move because they cannot afford housing. When this happens, children may lose access to …
Training Public Health Nurses on Disaster Shelter Care Using a Flipped Classroom Approach
2024
· University of California San Francisco,
· California State University East Bay,
· University of California, Davis
This article describes how public health nurses were trained to care for people in disaster shelters using a flipped classroom approach. In this method, nurses …
ImPACTS (Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation)
· Improving Pediatric Acute Care Through Simulation (ImPACTS),
· Yale New Haven Health System,
· Seattle Children's Hospital,
· Riley Children's Health
This webpage describes ImPACTS, a program that uses simulation to help doctors and nurses improve how they care for sick children in emergencies. The goal …