About 10 minutes with a therapy dog soothed kids who felt anxious about being emergency room patients. A clinical trial found that after spending time with a dog, young patients reported a ...

13,064. That’s the number of times children covered by HUSKY visited Connecticut emergency departments for behavioral health crises in 2023. Suicidality, severe anxiety, major depression, self-harm.

As cases of respiratory viruses are expected to pick up in the coming weeks, parents are recommended to closely monitor their child’s symptoms and know when they warrant immediate care, according to a ...

If every emergency room in the United States were fully prepared to treat children, thousands of lives would be saved and the cost would be $11.84 or less per child, researchers found. By Emily ...

A recent study of 4,840 emergency departments in the U.S. found that only 17.4% of ERs had a high level of readiness to treat pediatric patients. It estimated that 2,143 kids' lives could be saved ...

Therapeutic staff have been added to Children’s Minnesota emergency rooms to provide children with timely, continuous care. Children’s Minnesota and Washburn Center for Children are tackling one of ...