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Clinical Pathways promote evidence-based, safe, and high-value patient care by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Dr. Venkatesh Sampath, Collaborators Receive NICHD Grant to Study Safety of New Brain-Sparing Corticosteroid to Prevent BPD in Premature Infants
This study investigates the use of ciclesonide (CIC), a synthetic glucocorticoid (sGC) pro-drug that in the inhaled form is FDA approved for use in asthma and allergic rhinitis in older children, to...
Tips to make your child comfortable during immunizations
Summer days by the pool are ending and the back-to-school to-do lists are being completed. In between supply shopping and meeting the teacher, make sure to schedule time for your child’s school...
ECMO: What to Expect
Your health care team is here for you and wants to make sure you understand ECMO and how ECMO is affecting your child. Please ask your care team any questions that you have. Here are answers to some of...
ECMO Conditions
What is ECMO? Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, or ECMO, is a temporary machine that adds oxygen and removes carbon dioxide from your child's blood outside the body and returns the blood to your child...
Foreign Body Ingestion: Super-Absorbent Objects
Consult GI Consult Surgery if patient has symptoms of bowel obstruction Consider endoscopic removal Objects rapidly expand within the GI tract 30 - 60 times original volume Cause gastric outlet...
Foreign Body Ingestion
Clinical Pathways promote evidence-based, safe, and high-value patient care by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Top 10 tips for teens transitioning to adult medical care
Most parents have a mental list of skills they want their teen to have before they become an adult: laundry lessons, money management and cooking basics, to name a few. But have you talked with your teen...
Ethiopian clinicians both teach and learn during recent bioethics visit
Children’s Mercy Kansas City welcomed Dr. Mahlet Abayneh and Redeat Workneh from Ethiopia, who completed the Pediatric Bioethics Certificate Program. During their visit, they shared insights, engaged in...
Thrombolysis: Catheter-Directed
Clinical Pathways promote evidence-based, safe, and high-value patient care by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Anne Stuedemann Receives Grant for Project Aimed to Improve Health Literacy While Reducing Use of Paper at Children’s Mercy
The funding is being used on Anne Stuedemann’s Quality, Safety, Value Improvement (QSVI) project, “Orthopaedic Dynamic Quick Response (QR) Code Development: Quick and Easy Access to Standardized Patient...
Brexley's Story: Angels work there
Brexley, a joyful baby, faced a life-threatening situation at just 18 days old but was saved by quick action from Master Trooper Evan Jacks and expert medical care. Diagnosed with Shone’s Complex, she...
Evidence Based Practice / Clinical Pathways
The Office of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) partners with clinicians and families to standardize our approach to patient care. View Clinical Pathways, Enhanced Recovery Surgery Pathways, and Critically...
Status Epilepticus: Initial Management
Clinical Pathways promote evidence based, safe, and high-value care for patients by providing clinical recommendations and standard processes. They are developed by multidisciplinary committees of subject...
Why kids hit – and what parents can do about it
It’s a scenario many parents are probably familiar with: one second your children are playing quietly together, and then all of a sudden, you hear crying and shouts of “Mom, they hit me!” When this happens...
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Emerging Principal Investigators: Dr. Stephani Stancil
Building on her interests in precision therapeutics for mental health conditions, Dr. Stephani Stancil is researching the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to detect brain response in...
Operation Breakthrough
At Children’s Mercy, we believe every kid has amazing potential. That’s why we partner with Operation Breakthrough, an early education center and social service facility located at 31st and Troost (3039...
Abernethy Malformation: Joey’s Story
Meet Joey Joey in tie-dye onesie Ten-month-old Joseph, called Joey, is an easy-going baby who loves car rides and traveling with his mom, Jill Kamphefner, and his dad, Josh Masters. Not even a year old...
6 things parents should know about opioids
In the past 20 years, illegal use of opioids has risen sharply. Many people have family members struggling with addiction or have lost loved ones to overdose. What do parents need to know to keep kids safe?