Services Offered: Clinical Pharmacology

Inpatient Consult Service

The Clinical Pharmacology Consult Team provides consultative services for adverse drug reactions, drug-drug interactions, unanticipated responses to therapy, and other complex therapeutic issues. Experts in clinical pharmacology are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Clinical Research

• Pediatric Research Unit
  The Pediatric Research Unit has a long history of clinical trials on medications vital to the treatment of children. The unit is staffed to provide state-of-the-art investigation in the areas of drug safety, biotransformation, pharmacogenetics and pharmacokinetics.
• Phase I/II Experimental Therapeutics Program
  A collaborative initiative supported by the divisions of Clinical Pharmacology and Hematology/Oncology, this program specializes in the care of patients with recurrent/refractory pediatric cancers who receive experimental therapy.

Services Offered: Medical Toxicology

Inpatient Consult Service

The Medical Toxicology Consult Team provides consultative services for potential poison exposures, including overdoses (intentional and unintentional), environmental exposures, and envenomations, such as snake and spider bites. A Children's Mercy Medical Toxicologist is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our toxicologists also provide Medical Direction for the Kansas Poison Control Center.

Mid-America Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit

The MAPEHSU provides education and clinical consultation to patients, their families, and health care professionals regarding children who have an environmental exposure, such as lead and other heavy metals, pesticides, and chemical exposures. The MAPEHSU serves Region 7 (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska) in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.