Selected AAP Policy Statements:

• Access to Emergency Medical Care
• Adolescent Assault Victim Needs: A Review of Issues and a Model Protocol
• Care of Children in the Emergency Department: Guidelines for Preparedness
• Consent for Emergency Medical Services for Adolescents and Children
• Death of a Child in the Emergency Department
• Diagnostic Imaging of Child Abuse
• Distinguishing Sudden Infant Death From Child Abuse Fatalities
• Drugs for Pediatric Emergencies
• Emergency Preparedness for Children with Special Healthcare Needs
• Ethics and the Care of Critically Ill Infants and Children
• Evaluation and Preparation of Pediatric Patients Undergoing Anesthesia
• Guidelines for Developing Admission and Discharge Policies for the PICU
• Guidelines for the Evaluation of Sexual Abuse of Children
• Guidelines and Levels of Care for PICUs (pdf)
• Guidelines for Monitoring and Management of Pediatric Patients During and After Sedation for Diagnos-
  tic and Therapeutic Procedures (pdf); Addendum
• Guidelines for Emergency Medical Care in School
• Management of Acute Gastroenteritis in Young Children, Practice Parameter
• Management of Minor Closed Head Injury, Practice Parameter
• Medical Necessity for Hospitalization of the Abused and Neglected Child
• Neurodiagnostic Evaluation of the Child with a First SImple Febrile Seizure, Practice Parameter
• Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Act, Model Legislation
• Pediatricians and Childhood Bereavement
• Pediatrician's Liability During Disasters
• Role of the Pediatrician in Rural EMSC

PEDIATRICS -- Subspecialty Collections: Emergency Medicine

PEPP
PREP
PREP-EM

American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)

• Content Outline for Subspecialty Certifying Examination in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (pdf)
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine Program Directors Listing -
  Interactive Search
  > by Province and State
  > Alphabetical Membership Listing - USA
  > Alphabetical Membership Listing - CANADA

Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS)

Other Specialty Societies

• Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA)
• American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
  • ACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Section
  • Clinical Policy for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in the ED (pdf)
  • Emergency Information Form for Children with Special Needs
• American Heart Association (AHA)
• American Heart Association Scientific Statements and Practice Guidelines
• Pediatric Resuscitation
• Guidelines for Evaluation and Management of Common Congenital Cardiac Problems in Infants,
  Children,and Adolescents
• Recommended Guidelines for Uniform Reporting of Pediatric Advanced Life Support: The
  Pediatric Utstein Style
• Canadian Pædiatric Society - Emergency Pædiatrics Section - Position papers
• Emergency Nursing Association
• Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)

• EMSC National Resource Center

Internet Resources

• Selected WWW Sites for Federal (and Non-Federal Foundation) Grant Support for the Pediatric
  Emergency Medicine Investigator
• Pediatric Emergency Medicine Discussion List (PED-EM-L)
  
• The Completely Different Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal
• Radiology Cases in PEM

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