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Safety, Care & Nurturing (SCAN)
The Safety, Care and Nurturing Clinic cares for children by identifying, preventing, and treating all forms of child abuse. We develop innovative educational strategies for medical and investigative...
Conversations about weight: A focus on overall health
Talking about your child’s weight may feel uncomfortable or challenging to bring up for a variety of reasons. But what if “weight” wasn’t the main focus of the conversation? While weight and height are...
Perioperative Steroid Stress Dosing
Clinical Pathways promote evidence based, safe, and high-value care for patients by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Dr. Kate Kyler Receives NIH Grant to Study Role of Obesity in How Asthma Medicine Works
The goal of this study is to find out how having obesity affects how asthma medicine works in the body. To do this, Dr. Kyler and her team are comparing how the medicine moves through and affects the bodies...
Severity of Asthma Exacerbation
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Adaptive Care Plans
What is an adaptive care plan? An adaptive care plan is for children (ages 3 and older) and teens who may have a hard time coping with medical experiences. It gives doctors, nurses and other team members...
Center for Childhood Safety & Injury Prevention Receives Grant to Help Minimize Unintentional Injuries in Kids
As part of the funded project, the groups are offering safety devices such as car seats, helmets, reflective lights, and medication lock boxes to families in need.
Mental Health: Music for the Mind
Column Author: Trent Myers, MD | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Column Editor: Theodore Brisimitzakis, DO | Clinical Assistant...
How to transition infants from milk to solid foods
Every new phase of a baby’s life comes with a real mix of emotions. It’s exciting! It’s stressful! It’s joyful! It’s messy! The weaning stage is all of that and more. Before you feel too overwhelmed, take...
Evidence Based Strategies: Winter Sports and Concussions in Pediatric Patients
Column Author: Catharine N Kral, DO| Resident PGY 3; Chief Resident Column Author: Angela D. Etzenhouser, MD, FAAP | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of...
Kangaroo Care
Brianna Schmitz experienced a mix of fear and relief when she first held her premature son, Bodhi, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Born at just 28 weeks and weighing less than two pounds, Bodhi...
Dr. Kyler Receives Frontiers CTSI Award to Study Relationship Between Obesity and Treatment Response in Children with Asthma
Dr. Kyler’s project seeks to fill knowledge gaps by investigating how obesity influences steroid PK (i.e., exposure, or drug levels achieved in the body) and PD treatment response.
ECMO: What to Expect
Your health care team is here for you and wants to make sure you understand ECMO and how ECMO is affecting your child. Please ask your care team any questions that you have. Here are answers to some of...
A Mother’s Journey through the Children's Mercy Fetal Health Center and NICU
Aisha’s faith, family and an incredible care team carried her through three weeks of painful early labor, an emergency C-section delivery, and another three weeks in the NICU with her third son, Wisdom.
Mother/Daughter Team Shares Their Love for Nursing at Children’s Mercy
For Pattie and her daughter Jessica, nursing is not just a job – it's a family tradition. They are 2 of 7 women in their family who have been or currently are nurses at Children’s Mercy.
Lexy’s Story
Meet Lexy lexy-with-therapy-dog Lexy is a strong-willed five-year-old who loves art projects, tater tots, facility dog Jellybean and her big brother, Klay. Her fierce disposition has led the way...
Tips for surviving toddler behavior
The toddler stage (1-3 years old) is filled with joy, challenges and everything in between. Difficult behaviors often emerge during this time, including the dreaded “meltdowns” or as my old supervisor used...
Genomic Medicine Center Facilities
View a list of the Genomic Medicine Center's capital equipment and software tools. The collection of sequencers and robots allows the Center to process more than 20 terabases of data per week.
Child Adversity and Resilience
The mission of the Division of Child Adversity and Resilience is to improve the lives of at-risk children, families, and communities through clinical care, community-based intervention, research, and...
Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction (ILO), Vocal Cord Dysfunction (VCD)
Inducible laryngeal obstruction is an inappropriate, transient, reversible narrowing of the larynx to external or internal triggers. The true vocal folds, false vocal folds or supraglottic tissue can...