The Skills of Emergency Medicine in Children: Actual Challenges
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Emergency Medicine & Intensive Care Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 July 2025) | Viewed by 310
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pediatric emergency; pediatric advanced life support; high-fidelity simulation; non-technical skills
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past ten years, pediatric emergency medicine has vastly changed.
Sepsis, trauma, respiratory diseases, and seizure management are still priorities in pediatric emergency departments, but the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, global migrations, and social and cultural trends have had an impact on the epidemiology and etiology of such conditions. Moreover, these factors have assisted in largely increasing the psychiatric burden in pediatric emergency departments worldwide.
From a global perspective, the crowding of pediatric emergency departments is a major patient safety concern and has consequences for healthcare providers regarding burnout and their well-being.
Simulation-based education and debriefing have emerged as effective strategies to improve the management of low-frequency/high-impact conditions like pediatric emergencies. More recently, such training programs have also been used to develop non-technical skills in critical situations.
This Special Issue will focus on actual challenges in pediatric emergency medicine. Special emphasis will be given to core pediatric emergency medicine skills, such as the management of medical and traumatic emergencies and procedural competencies, as well as psychiatric diseases and non-technical skills, like crisis resource management, teamwork, and communication. In this Special Issue, papers that focus on simulation-based learning, debriefing, and organizational strategies to help manage overcrowding and aid healthcare workers in dealing with burnout are welcome.
Dr. Claudia Bondone
Dr. Emanuele Castagno
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pediatric emergency medicine
- pediatric emergency department
- psychiatric disorders
- crowding
- medical simulation
- non-technical skills
- children
- adolescents
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