Pediatric Emergency Care

About one-quarter of Shore Memorial's emergency patients are children. Because children are not just small versions of adults, they require a special kind of emergency care. Shore Memorial Emergency Department staff uses The Breslow system to help emergency personnel quickly correlate a child’s size to a chart indicating the most suitable equipment and medications. Color-coded emergency carts are already stocked with appropriately sized equipment and doses of medicine. Saving precious time and precious lives.

When the situation warrants, Shore Memorial's emergency physicians consult pediatric hospitalists (pediatric physicians who remain on site 24 hours per day) from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.