Emergency Services at Nationwide Children’s Hospital features a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and Pediatric Emergency Department, which is staffed by board-certified/eligible pediatric emergency medicine sub-specialists 24 hours a day. The Emergency Department provides expertise in pediatric advanced life support and resuscitation, as well as evaluation and treatment in every area for acute medical and surgical conditions.
Nationwide Children’s is part of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). PECARN is the first federally funded, multi-institutional network for research in pediatric emergency medicine in the United States. The PECARN network includes six research nodes, each with three hospital emergency department affiliates and one EMS affiliate. These sites cover various types of hospitals. Each year, PECARN emergency departments treat about 1.3 million sick and injured children, and the nine EMS affiliates handle over 113,000 pediatric cases.
The Pedi-PART study will determine which of the three airway management methods is best when caring for children who are critically ill and need emergency care because they have stopped breathing.
This study will help us to determine which of two commonly used fluids in the treatment of children with sepsis leads to the best outcomes.
The purpose of the research study is to compare the effectiveness of two different treatments for massive transfusion in children.
The purpose of this study is to simplify how paramedics give medication to seizing children to stop the seizure and to decrease the number of children still seizing when they arrive at the emergency department.
The study aims to determine whether the Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) examination, performed during the initial evaluation of children with blunt torso trauma, safely decreases the use of abdominal CT scans.
This study aims to improve the guideline adherence for managing acute painful vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) who present to the emergency department (ED).
