Marianne Gausche-Hill, Medical Director for the LA County EMS Agency, Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at UCLA and Harbor-UCLA, Senior Consultant to the EIIC, and member of the steering committee of the National Pediatric Readiness Projectĭr. Sarah Medeiros, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davisĭr. Julia Magaña, Associate Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UC Davisĭr.

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But every once in a while, a critically ill or injured child comes in. Usually it’s for common things like viral upper respiratory infections or playground injuries. General EM physicians are well trained to care for kids, and most of us care for them regularly in the ED.

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