Perspectives on Simulation-Based Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team Education: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews With Transport Program Leaders in the ImPACTS Transport Simulation Study.

Objective: Pediatric critical care transport (PCCT) teams are expected to manage a wide spectrum of pediatric high-acuity conditions. PCCT program leaders may have unique insights into transport team training, including opportunities, experiences, and barriers. The purpose of this study was to understand how PCCT program leaders perceived the role of simulation in PCCT team education.

Communicating after the Death of a Child: Bereaved Parent Insights on the GRIEV_ING Framework.

Communicating with a parent or guardian after their child's death is considered one of the most difficult tasks in medicine. While several frameworks have been developed to aid clinicians when delivering bad news, they are incomplete without the perspectives of bereaved family members. The GRIEV_ING Educational Intervention is one well-established framework for death notification that currently lacks feedback from bereaved family members.

A National Simulation-Based Study of Pediatric Critical Care Transport Teams Performance.

Objectives: To assess pediatric critical care transport (CCT) teams' performance in a simulated environment and to explore the impact of team and center characteristics on performance.

Study Design: This observational, multicenter, simulation-based study enlisted a national cohort of pediatric transport centers. Teams participated in 3 scenarios: nonaccidental abusive head injury, sepsis, and cardiac arrest.

Validation of a pediatric bedside tool to predict time to death after withdrawal of life support.

Aim: To evaluate the accuracy of a tool developed to predict timing of death following withdrawal of life support in children.

Methods: Pertinent variables for all pediatric deaths (age ≤ 21 years) from 1/2009 to 6/2014 in our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) were extracted through a detailed review of the medical records. As originally described, a recently developed tool that predicts timing of death in children following withdrawal of life support (dallas predictor tool [DPT]) was used to calculate individual scores for each patient.

Hospital-based emergency department visits in children with motor vehicle traffic accidents: estimates from the nationwide emergency department sample.

Background: The purpose of this study is to provide nationally representative estimates of children visiting hospital-based emergency departments (ED) for motor vechicle traffic accidents (MVTA) in the United States during the year of 2008.

Methods: Nationwide Emergency Department Sample for 2008 was used. All pediatric (age ≤18 years) ED visits with external cause for injury ICD-9-diagnostic codes for MVTA were selected.

Epidemiology of hospital-based emergency department visits due to sports injuries.

Background: Sports-related injuries in adolescents incur a significant amount of hospital resources. Sports-related injuries are not an uncommon cause of ED visit; however, national estimates of such injuries in teenagers are unknown.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify and characterize emergency department (ED) visits that result from sports-related injuries among teenagers across the United States.

Children in the United States make close to 200,000 emergency department visits due to poisoning each year.

Objective: The aim of this study was to provide nationally representative hospital-based emergency department (ED) estimate visits in children (aged ≤ 18 y) attributed to poisoning in the United States in 2008.

Methods: Nationwide Emergency Department Sample for the year 2008 was used. All ED visits among children (aged ≤ 18 y) with an external cause of injury for "poisoning" were selected for analysis.

The use of extubation readiness parameters: a survey of pediatric critical care physicians.

Background: The pediatric literature addressing extubation readiness parameters and strategies to wean from mechanical ventilation is limited.

Methods: We designed a survey to assess the use of extubation readiness parameters among pediatric critical care physicians at academic centers in the United States.

Results: The overall response rate was 44.