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Nutrition for Injury Recovery in Athletes
Injuries and sports participation are a common occurrence and proper nutrition can assist with a speedier return to play. Poor nutrition lengthens recovery time due to impairing the healing process. ...
Sports Medicine Surgery
Children’s Mercy sports medicine surgeons specialize in expert care and treatment for student-athletes of all ages. When you visit with your surgeon and their team, your student-athlete is the center of...
Aquatic Therapy
Aquatic therapy uses the healing power of water to accelerate your student-athlete’s rehabilitation and fitness. With three different therapy pools to meet all kinds of needs, Children’s Mercy offers the...
Eosinophilic Asthma: Hunter's Story
In a matter of a few hours, Hunter Box went from being a healthy, active 17-year-old, to a severely ill teen struggling for his next breath. After two hospitalizations, he was diagnosed with eosinophilic...
Hypersensation of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Amarissa’s Story
Meet Amarissa Ice cream, popsicles, pepperoni pizza and fish sticks are just a few of 4 ½-year-old Amarissa Hampton’s favorite foods. But until just a few months ago, the tiny girl with the wispy light...
Ewing sarcoma: Gavin's Story
Just take one look at his picture, and it’s easy to see that Gavin Beaver is a fighter, but it’s not because he wants to be. It’s because he has to be. At just 9 years old, Gavin was diagnosed with Ewing...
Education
Children's Mercy inpatients: Direct patient education on LMWH will be provided and documented by Children's Mercy pharmacists for Children's Mercy inpatients. Education will include potential for...
Dr. Doug Myers Receives Grant to Study How Tumor Microenvironment Suppress Tumor Killing Capabilities of CAR T Cells
The funding is being used for Dr. Myers’ study “Role of macrophages and tumor structure in modulating chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell activity in solid tumors.”
Hypertension
For Children's Mercy Kansas City providers: Skills: Blood Pressure Measurement (Pediatric) - CE (elsevierperformancemanager.com) For providers without Children's Mercy privileges, tables...
Prader-Willi Syndrome Clinic
Experts in several specialties provide a comprehensive and collaborative approach to patients with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Discover Children's Mercy
Go behind the scenes Community leaders, business leaders, and government officials are invited to spend one-on-one time with pediatric sub-specialists, nurses, therapists, and other professionals to...
Before You Arrive
It's nice to know what to expect when you are coming to a Children's Mercy hospital or medical clinic for the first time. Scheduling an Appointment Locations Preparing for Your Visit What to...
Children’s Mercy Is Built for Kids
For more than 125 years Children’s Mercy has been taking care of kids. With more than 8,600 caring experts in our health system, you can always find someone to help.
Pediatric Tracheostomy and Home Ventilator Clinic Team
Patient Review...
Dr. Craig Smail Receives R21 NIH Grant to Better Understand Biology of Complex Rare Diseases
Dr. Smail’s study, “Novel computational approaches to characterize the effects of rare functional outlier variants on cis- and trans-regulatory disease processes,” will work to understand the genome-wide...
Project RISE Receives Grant to Create Paid Internship Program, Conference for People with Disabilities, Chronic Health Conditions
Project RISE is a premier program at Children’s Mercy, creating meaningful employment opportunities and volunteer experiences for people with disabilities, many of whom are former Children’s Mercy...
Younger Lab
This lab, led by Scott Younger, PhD, integrates a series of research programs to accelerate the process of translating the clinical detection of genetic variants into meaningful and actionable biological...
Maintenance and Monitoring
Once a therapeutic standard heparin level is obtained draw CBC, PT, aPTT and/or heparin level at least daily. Measure platelet counts daily. If platelet count decreases below 150,000/microL or drops by ≥
General and Thoracic Surgery
Children's Mercy offers a broad range of surgical services for children. We are available 24 hours a day, 365 days per year for when your child needs us.
Heparin Antidote
Termination of the IV infusion generally will terminate the anticoagulant effect. If immediate reversal is required protamine sulfate will result in neutralization of heparin. The dose of protamine...