Harbor:Pediatric ED (main)

See Adult ED for the main adult Harbor page.

Background

This is the main page for Harbor-UCLA Pediatric ED.

General Administrative

• Schedule and sick backup plans
• Follow-up track information

Managing your Patient

Ordering

• Use the Peds ED tab on Cerner Place Orders for PED quick orders
  • For medication orders
    • Remember that pediatric medications are often dosed on a per kg basis
    • Cerner does not automatically stop at a maximum dose, so check that you are not ordering more than an adult dose
  • Separate Saline Lock order is not needed if you are ordering an IV medication or IV bolus
    • If you are ordering a blood draw and want an IV also, must separately order saline lock
• Ordering a Formal Ultrasound
• Ultrasound approval list
• Ordering a CT
• Ordering Blood Products
• Ordering antibiotics
  • Harbor antibiogram

Documenting

• Attending documentation
• Consenting a Patient

Procedures

• Equipment
• Consenting a patient

Finding Things

• Paging consults
• Consultation of subspecialists
• Equipment and supplies

Special patient types

• For patients followed in a pediatric subspecialty clinic, particularly Hematology-Oncology & Cardiology, call the subspecialist on call to notify them of the patient's ED visit
• Psychiatric patients

Patient Disposition

Discharging a Patient

• Prescribing
• Options for follow-up

Admitting a patient

• Paging consultants
• Admission guidelines

Other

• Deceased patients

Disaster

• General disaster info
• Surge Plan
• Suspected Ebola protocol

See Also

• Harbor:Main