Trauma Care
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Related Services and Programs
Our Comprehensive Approach
Research shows that children treated at pediatric trauma facilities have higher survival rates and better outcomes than those treated at adult facilities. Full-service, freestanding children’s hospitals like CHKD offer young trauma patients experienced, comprehensive care backed by a full-range of pediatric support services.
Trauma patients at CHKD benefit from the following unique services:
- The region’s only pediatric general surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgeons, plastic surgeons, urologists, cardiac surgeons and anesthesiologists.
- An experienced, PALS-trained pediatric critical care transport team
- Consultation and care in more than 25 pediatric subspecialties including pediatric emergency medicine, critical care and physical medicine and rehabilitation
- A 25-bed pediatric intensive care unit
- An 8-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation unit
- Pediatric physical, occupational and speech therapy
- Emotional and educational support services like child life therapy, social work and hospital schoolteachers
Pediatric providers from some or all of the specialties above collaborate to meet the specific needs of each patient. The goal of our child-centered care is always to restore the child to optimal health.
Injury Prevention Program
The Injury Prevention Program at CHKD is dedicated to protecting children from preventable harm by equipping families with practical safety guidance, from car seat use and safe sleep to home and sports injury prevention. Through its Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and community efforts like the Safer Futures program, the program works to reduce the more than 12,500 pediatric injuries treated each year. By focusing on prevention as much as treatment, CHKD aims to build a safer community where every child can grow up healthy and strong.
Find injury prevention tips and learn more about our Injury Prevention Program here.
