Introduction: In the United States, 840,000 children are reported missing annually. While no concise data is available on incidence from healthcare facilities, infant and child abductions elopement events pose a high risk to infants hospital staff. Following an update policy at tertiary care in New York, hospital’s emergency preparedness team conducted full-scale drill. The drill included input...

Lois Lehman, R.T.(R)(CT), is assistant director of radiology at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas. Radiographers understand the importance of getting the most diagnostic information from as few radiographs as possible. And in the world of pediatric scoliosis imaging, pediatric orthopedic surgeons, radiologists and orthotists must obtain more than just spine data from each and ...

The tradition of selfless charity for children in Toronto was established by Elizabeth McMaster, founder of the Hospital for Sick Children, or "Sick Kids," in 1875. The tradition of fortitude and perseverance in trying to cure children who were deemed incurable by others was sealed into the history of the Hospital by early pioneering surgeons, including Drs. Clarence Starr, A.W. Farmer, and Wil...

BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital emergency care is at an early stage of development in Armenia, with the current emergency medical services (EMS) system having emergency physicians (EPs) work on ambulances along with nurses. While efforts are underway by the Ministry of Health and other organizations to reform the EMS system, little data exists on the status of pediatric emergency care (PEC) in the c...

K.R. Kampen, F.J.G. Scherpen, G. Garcia-Manero, H. Yang, G.J.L. Kaspers, J. Cloos, C.M. Zwaan, M.M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink, S.M. Kornblau, E.S.J.M. De Bont 1 Department of Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. 2 Department of Leukemia, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center...

BACKGROUND Although survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest is likely to vary among hospitals caring for children,validated methods to risk-standardize pediatric survival rates across sites do not currently exist. METHODS AND RESULTS From 2006 to 2010, within the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation registry for in-hospital cardiac arrest, we identified 1551 ca...

Joseph Wang, Beth Vogt, Sidharth Kumar Sethi, Matthew G. Sampson, Virginia Vega-Warner, Edgar A. Otto and Rupesh Raina Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA; Pediatric Nephrology, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Pediatric Nephrology, Kidney Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, 122...