Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine 7th edition

Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Our primary goal as practitioners is to provide high-quality, safe care for each child who arrives in our emergency department. The ability to stay current with pediatric medical literature across all possible conditions and injuries is impossible for any clinician. Furthermore, the evidence may be poor, inconsistent, or changing for the management of many diseases or injuries. This leads to a wide variation in practice, high rates of inappropriate care, patient harm, and wasted resources. With this new edition of the Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, we provide easy webbased access for use in practice, clinical pathways based on the latest evidence and expert consensus, and a new, streamlined format that emphasizes the goals of quality care and links to the corresponding “Signs and Symptoms” algorithms and Clinical Pathways.
KEY POINTS

Standardization of care by using evidence-based clinical pathways or guidelines reduces variation in practice and decreases the rates of inappropriate care for children.

Easily accessed web-based resources aid clinicians in reducing medical errors due to cognition Teamwork, communication, and a nonpunitive reporting environment are key to providing safe care for children in EDs.

Both the systems at the “blunt end” and the practices of the clinicians at the “sharp” end must be consistently monitored and improved to provide highly reliable care

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