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Heat-Related Illness

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best-Practices Recommendations. Heat illness and heat stroke. Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness and Council on School Health, Policy statement—Climatic heat stress and exercising children and adolescents. Casa DJ et al.

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Pediatric Pain

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Use soothing sensory measures: speak softly, offer a pacifier, and stroke the skin softly. Researchers are currently working to offer an evidence base to this anecdotal practice. Pediatric burns should be assessed carefully and treated aggressively. Minor burns can be treated topically and with oral medications.