Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK)
The Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) collection features selections from the TREKK website that are relevant to the scope of Resource Central.
Bottom Line Recommendations: Community Acquired Pneumonia
2024
· Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK),
· EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC)
The document provides guidelines for diagnosing and managing community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children. It describes that viruses are the main cause of CAP, followed by …
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Bottom Line Recommendations: Physical Child Abuse
2023
· Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK),
· EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC)
This document provides a short summary of guidelines for healthcare professionals on identifying and managing suspected physical child abuse. It describes red flags like unexplained …
Bottom Line Recommendations: Severe Head Injury
2022
· Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK),
· EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC)
This document provides guidelines for managing severe head injuries in children. It describes how to assess and stabilize kids with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) …
Status Epilepticus: Algorithm and Bottom Line Recommendations
2022
· Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK),
· EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC)
These algorithm and bottom line recommendations documents discuss status epilepticus, providing valuable information on this medical condition. It covers various aspects related to status epilepticus, …
Pediatric Education and Advocacy Kit (PEAK): Status Epilepticus
2022
· EMSC Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC),
· Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK),
· SimBox
This toolkit focuses on status epilepticus, a severe type of seizure in children. It provides resources and educational materials to help healthcare providers manage these …
Complete Eats: Summer Meals Offered by the Emergency Department for Food Insecurity
This article describes a program called "Complete Eats," which provides summer meals to people facing food insecurity. The meals are offered by an emergency department …
Pediatric Sepsis Diagnosis, Management, and Sub-phenotypes
2024
· Nemours Children's Health,
· Thomas Jefferson University,
· University of Pennsylvania,
· Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
This article discusses the challenges of diagnosing and treating sepsis in children, highlighting that sepsis causes many deaths and health issues worldwide. It emphasizes the …
Hospital-Based Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response: Strategies to Increase Surge Capacity
This article describes how a children's hospital prepared for the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic. They increased space in the emergency department and used different areas …
Pediatric Mass Casualty Preparedness
This review article focuses on anesthesiologists and their role in pediatric disaster preparedness, particularly in mass casualty incidents (MCIs), which can call for different preparation …
Severe Pediatric Neurological Manifestations With SARS-CoV-2 or MIS-C Hospitalization and New Morbidity
2024
· Montreal Children's Hospital,
· Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
· University of Pennsylvania,
· Johns Hopkins University,
· Seattle Children's Hospital,
· Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
· Fundación Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud,
· Nationwide Children's Hospital
This study was designed to assess the association of severe neurological manifestations during a SARS-CoV-2–related hospital admission with new neurocognitive or functional morbidities at discharge. …