Pediatric Trauma 2025: Quality Care for Serious Pediatric Injuries

The latest installment in an award-winning series, Pediatric Trauma 2025: Quality Care for Serious Pediatric Injuries facilitates excellence by covering the latest scientific information on caring for children who present with traumatic injuries. Perfect for pediatric trauma programs, this book provides 18 hours of pediatric trauma-specific CME/CE credits, meeting the yearly requirements for trauma-certified professionals.

Pediatric Trauma 2025 topics include:

1. Differentiating and Managing Pediatric Shock: Review how to identify and manage shock in pediatric patients.
2. Pediatric Burn Care: Strategies for Identification and Treatment: Review how to treat burns in pediatric patients.
3. Diagnosis and Management of Abscesses: Review techniques to identify abscesses in pediatric patients and consider various treatment options.
4. Recognizing, Managing, and Reporting Pediatric Sexual Abuse and Assault: Review warning signs and conversational techniques to employ when suspecting pediatric patients of experiencing sexual abuse and assault.
5. Nonaccidental Trauma: Review the indications of nonaccidental trauma in pediatric patients.
6. Pediatric Toxic Ingestions: Dangers at Home: Review common sources of toxic ingestion to consider for pediatric patients and consider treatment options.

Features:

1. Provides latest evidence on how to best treat children who have experienced a traumatic event
2. Includes valuable tables, figures, charts, photographs, and images to support the information
3. Easy format for physicians and nurses to earn pediatric trauma-specific continuing education credits
4. Provides clinically relevant information on pediatric trauma injuries, challenges, and controversies

Expiration: Oct. 20, 2027

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Faculty:

Physician Editor:
Ann Dietrich, MD, FAAP, FACEP
Division Director Pediatric Emergency Medicine PRISMA Health; Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, University of South Carolina College of Medicine

Peer Reviewers:
Mary Jo Bowman, MD, FAAP
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus; Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH

Frank LoVecchio, DO, MPH, FACEP
Vice-Chair for Research, Medical Director, Samaritan Regional Poison Control Center, Emergency Medicine Department, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ

Daniel Migliaccio, MD, FDP, FAAEM
Clinical Associate Professor, Director of Emergency Ultrasound, Ultrasound Fellowship Director, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Steven M. Winograd, MD, FACEP
Attending Physician, Trinity Healthcare, Albany, New York

Nurse Reviewers:
Laura Bauer, RN, BSN, CPEN
Pediatric Emergency Dept RN, Banner University Medical Center, Tucson, AZ

Laura Bauer, RN, BSN, CPEN
Trauma Program Manager, Mt. Carmel East, Columbus, OH

Julie M. Matson, MSN, RN, TNS, CEN
Program Director, Trauma Services, UTMB Health System, Galveston, Texas

Learning Objectives:

The objectives of Pediatric Trauma 2025 are to:

• Discuss conditions that should increase suspicion for traumatic injuries in pediatric patients.
• Describe the various modalities used to identify different traumatic conditions.
• Cite methods of quickly stabilizing and managing pediatric patients.
• Identify possible complications that may occur with traumatic injuries in children.

Target Audience:

This activity is intended for physicians participating in trauma programs, trauma center nurses, emergency department physicians, and emergency department nurses.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

18 ANCC contact hours will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion.

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 18 hours of ACEP Category I credit.

Instructions for Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 80 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.

ISBN: 978-1-941481-75-2