Inpatient Capacity at Children’s Hospitals during Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak, United States
Quantifying how close hospitals came to exhausting capacity during the outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 can help the health care system plan for more virulent pandemics.
Ensuring the Health of Children in Disasters
Infants, children, adolescents, and young adults have unique physical, mental, behavioral, developmental, communication, therapeutic, and social needs that must be addressed and met in all aspects of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery.
Supporting the Grieving Child and Family
The death of someone close to a child often has a profound and lifelong effect on the child and results in a range of both short- and long-term reactions. Pediatricians, within a patient-centered medical home, are in an excellent position to provide anticipatory guidance to caregivers and to offer assistance and support to children and families.
Disaster Preparedness in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Disasters disproportionally affect vulnerable, technology-dependent people, including preterm and critically ill newborn infants. It is important for health care providers to be aware of and prepared for the potential consequences of disasters NICU.
The objective was to determine the occurrence of, and the factors associated with, diastolic hypotension and troponin elevation
Chemical-Biological Terrorism and Its Impact on Children
Chemical and biological events (including infectious disease outbreaks) may affect children disproportionately, and the threat of a chemical or biological attack remains in the United States and worldwide.
We compare emergency department (ED) patient flow during the fall 2009 novel H1N1-associated surge in patient volumes at an urban, tertiary care, pediatric medical center to that in the previous winter virus season.
Pediatric Anthrax Clinical Management
Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, which has multiple routes of infection in humans, manifesting in different initial presentations of disease. Because B anthracis has the potential to be used as a biological weapon and can rapidly progress to systemic anthrax with high mortality in those who are exposed and untreated
The Role of Pediatric Health Care Providers
This article is part of a collaborative effort by experts in the field of emergency preparedness to complete an overview begun by the late Michael Shannon, MD, MPH, on the current challenges and future directions in pediatric disaster readiness.
The Biennial Implementation Plan (BIP) for the National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) describes a set of desired outcomes and specific activities that are designed to put the Nation on the path toward attaining the goals and objectives contained in the NHSS.
Dr. Dan is a distinguished ER Physician, Biodefense Expert, War Veteran, Media Personality, former Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Professor