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Bylaws
Terms Two-year minimum. No limit to years involved. Members will consist of patients, parents and caregivers of child/children with Cardiac diagnoses who attend Children’s Mercy for care and/or treatment...
PHIL Award
Nominate a respiratory therapist for the PHIL Award. Begin your nomination Tell us who you are nominating for The PHIL award and why.
Microdiscectomy for Disc Herniation
Surgery Badge Disc herniations are rare in children and adolescents, but they do occur from time to time. They typically cause leg pain commonly referred to as sciatica. Sometimes, these can be treated...
Surgical Site Infection: Spinal Fusion, Neurosurgical Shunt, Cardiothoracic Surgeries (Text Only)
Children’s Mercy Quarter Number of Infections Number of Surgeries Infections per 100 Surgeries (Number of Infections/Number of Surgeries x 100) Jan-Mar 2015 6 124 4.83871 Apr-Jun 2015 1 132 0.757576...
Link Newsletter - June 2023
Our June issue features the latest news and updates on pediatric care from Children's Mercy clinicians. We want to hear from you! Do you have ideas, questions or suggestions for future articles in The...
Implementation of a Transition Readiness Assessment and Transition Discussion Documentation in a Type 1 Diabetes Clinic
Authors: Sonalee Ravi, MD; Jaimie Contreras, BSN, RN, CDECS; Julie Kincheloe, BSN, RN, CDECS; Heather Feingold, LSCSW, LCSW; Lydia Sailor BSN, RN, CDECS; Callie Chagas, MS, RD, CDECS; Rebekah Elliott BS...
Academic Success
OFD Children’s Mercy is an independent pediatric academic health system. Our faculty hold academic appointments at multiple universities, including the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University...
Core Exercises and Conditioning for Adolescent Athletes
Everyone talks about “core” as an important building block to injury treatment, prevention and performance enhancement for athletes, but what is the core? If you think of your torso as a cylinder...
3. Asthma Presentation
Clinical signs and symptoms of asthma can vary between patients and even within the same patient. When well, there may be no signs or symptoms. During an asthma exacerbation, hyperinflation of chest...
5. Asthma Severity and Asthma Control
Severity and control are two different assessments for a child’s asthma. Definitions of severity and control will be reviewed in this section. Tables summarizing the management of asthma based on severity...
Brain Tumor Treatment
The Children's Mercy Brain Tumor Program offers specialized care for children diagnosed with malignant brain tumors. Our clinical team focuses on treating a full range of conditions related to brain tumors...
Transition to Adulthood Conference
Transition to Adulthood Family Education Day Thank you for joining us at our 2025 Family Education Day. Information about future Transition to Adulthood events is coming soon. Past Events On...
Febrile Infant: Lumbar Puncture Considerations
There is substantial evidence Inflammatory Markers (IM) are predictive of invasive blood infections including bacterial meningitis. For this age group, the number of meningitis cases in published studies...
Hypertension Inpatient Medication List
Common medications/substances associated with hypertension:Antipsychotics / Tricyclic Antidepressants, Amphetamines/stimulants, Caffeine, Chemotherapy, and more.
Glucocorticosteroids
In the pediatric patient diagnosed with a refractory migraine, is glucocorticosteriods an effective treatment for the prevention of migraine relapse (return to ED or provider for relapse of the same...
Magnesium Sulfate
In the pediatric patient diagnosed with a refractory migraine, what is the efficacy of intravenous magnesium sulfate to decrease migraine pain in the Emergency Department? Plain language summary from the...
Indications For Hematology Consultation
Indications for Hematology consultation with anticoagulant therapy: Initiation of therapy for patients: Not in critical care unit. Age < 30 days. Baseline INR ≥ 1.2 prior to initiation of warfarin.
Indications For Hematology Consultation
Indications for Hematology consultation with anticoagulant therapy: Initiation of therapy for patients: Not in critical care unit Age < 30 days Baseline INR ≥ 1.2 prior to initiation of warfarin Impaired...
Fast Facts
Warfarin is generally started on day 1 or 2 of heparin or low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) therapy. Heparin or LMWH administration should overlap with warfarin for a minimum of 6 days and until INR (
Stratification Guidelines for Tumor Lysis Syndrome
For risk assessment in tumor lysis syndrome, see Figures 2 and 3 in the Pediatrics in Review (access is provided below): For Children's Mercy providers: Library Services For providers without Children's...