For Providers

Clinical Resources

As a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center, C. S. Mott Children’s Hospital strives to provide optimal trauma care for injured children. Pediatric trauma care offers unique challenges as age-dependent anatomy and cognitive variability in children creates special considerations for injury patterns, diagnosis and treatment. As it is often stated, children are not merely small adults, but unique and continually developing systems with respect to anatomic size, shape, cognitive understanding and physiologic response to trauma. Adding to the complexity for many centers, pediatric trauma events are often high stress but low frequency. Because of this, it is helpful to have clear guidelines of practice. The resources contained on this page are provided as tools for clinical personnel who care for pediatric trauma patients. The guidelines here are not all encompassing and should be used in conjunction with other resource material available.  

Research

The Trauma Research Program is multidisciplinary and includes pediatric surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, rehabilitation, critical care, and emergency medicine. The trauma medical program members are active participants of the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Research Center and the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), a nationally-funded research network with a major focus in pediatric trauma. Projects to reduce risk-taking behavior, post-traumatic stress and trauma recidivism are planned for the future. A new collaboration between the Trauma Program and the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute will develop an electronic method of monitoring bicycle helmet use in children.

Referring Physicians

Transfer Information: 1-800-822-2233

Referring physician and Survival Flight will discuss:

• Patient's medical history, vital signs, physical exam, laboratory values, radiographic data

• Treatment interventions that have already taken place and patient response

• Parental awareness of and consent for transport

The communication specialist will notify the transport team, allowing for dispatch either by ground or air as soon as requested. An estimated time of arrival will be given and updated as necessary.

At time of transport, referring hospital should supply:

• Copies of patient's medical record, laboratory values, radiographic studies

• Referring and private physicians' addresses, phone and fax numbers