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This article addresses legal, regulatory and ethical principles and policies to improve everyday prevention and preparedness for pediatric disasters . States' and health care systems’ ability to optimally respond to pediatric disaster and surge can only be successful if the legal, regulatory and ethical principles and policies in a particular state or region are well understood as they modify during a disaster declaration. A review by state and regional partners was used to develop a deeply researched, yet concise resource addressing: licensure, liability, transport, medical direction, telemedicine, use of patient tracking, shared emergency operations, mutual aid laws and crisis standards of care, especially as all of these impact children. The resources and recommendations will increase emergency management professional’s and medical provider’s understanding of the immunities and other protections afforded them in a disaster response, but also emphasize the duty to protect unaccompanied minors, and recognize that crisis standards may have different applications in children; to improve non-children’s health center’s understanding of their “duty to plan” for pediatric surge.Tags
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