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Adolescent Medicine
Description: The Adolescent Medicine Rotation is a 4-week experience in mostly outpatient clinics devoted to adolescent subspecialty care. This is not a primary care rotation. Educational...
Rising T1DE Leadership
Rising T1DE is an industry-leading team of clinicians, data scientists, researchers, persons with diabetes and family members focused on rapidly innovating and scaling quality improvement efforts in...
Osteochondritis Dissecans Treatment at Children's Mercy
Osteochondritis dissecans, or OCD, is an articular cartilage defect that develops most often in adolescents. The Children's Mercy pediatric orthopedic surgeons have seen more than 500 patients in the past...
Epilepsy in Adolescents and Children: Telemedicine
REACT is Reaching Out for Epilepsy in Adolescents and Children through Telemedicine. Through this program, Children’s Mercy partners with community providers to improve access to specialized epilepsy care...
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Resources What is Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis? Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis is a chronic inflammatory condition that causes swelling, stiffness, and pain of the joints. It can affect one or many joints...
Helping Your Child Eat or Drink While in the Hospital
Tips for drinking Use a cup from home. Help your child decorate a cup to make drinking more fun. You can use things such as stickers or markers. Offer a different type of cup. Some choices may be a paper...
Toddler’s Fracture - Outbreaks June 2022
Children with toddler’s fractures will usually present with a limp or refusal to bear weight on an extremity after tripping, stumbling or falling from a short height.
Palliative Care Team
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Food Texture Types
Eating and drinking is hard work and is not always automatic. Here you will find strategies for progressing from bottle to cup drinking and for progressing from pureed foods to more complex table foods.
Understanding Health Care Credentials
This list can help you understand some of the most common credentials in health care – the groups of letters after your Children's Mercy team member’s name. Credentials are one indicator of the level...
RED CARD
Teaming up for bullying prevention Red Card: Call it logo Children’s Mercy and Sporting Kansas City are stepping up to help address one of the most significant social issues impacting children and teens...
Red Card KC
Red Card Logo In 2016, Children’s Mercy and Sporting Kansas City began a ground-breaking, long-term partnership. Together, these two prominent Kansas City organizations are working to create positive change...
Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Immunology
Description and Educational Objectives: To expose the student, either through clinical encounters, bedside teaching or didactic lectures/problem-based learning modules to the following diseases and...
Myelomeningocele: Indications for Ventriculoperitoneal Shunting
In an effort to standardize criteria for treating hydrocephalus surgically (shunt or endoscopic procedures) the criteria used in the MoMS trial will be used: At least two of the following: An...
Rhabdomyosarcoma: Suela's Story
Persephone Consuela (Suela) Duran had a better chance of being hit by lightning than developing rhabdomyosarcoma. Suela was a 12-year-old when she began experiencing what seemed to be harmless, though...
Limb Difference Clinic
The Children's Mercy Limb Difference Clinic helps children who have limb differences, whether they were born with them or acquired later in life. Our team works to encourage self-confidence and help...
Abnormal Menstrual Patterns
Recommendations for pediatricians regarding diagnosis, management, and when to refer to a Children's Mercy specialist.
Vaccine Update: Staying Current with Hepatitis B Recommendations
Column Author: Maria A. Martinez MSN, MBA, RN, CPN Column Editor: Douglas S. Swanson, MD | Medical Director, Occupational Health Globally, viral hepatitis infections result in 3,500 deaths...
Intussusception
Clinical Pathways promote evidence-based, safe, and high-value patient care by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Cancer Research: Elsie's Story
“I don’t think there’s anything that can dull Elsie’s sparkle,” her mom says. For 4-year-old Elsie and her family, being part of a research study during her acute lymphoblastic leukemia treatment is their...