pediatric emergency
Young patient urgency
A pediatric emergency is a sudden, serious medical condition affecting an infant, child, or adolescent that requires immediate care.
The term appears in medical contexts: pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric emergency department.
What constitutes an emergency may differ from adults—children's physiology and developmental stages create distinct urgencies: The fever would be concerning in any child, but in an infant it's a pediatric emergency.
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- code blueHospital cardiac arrest signal
- rapid responseFast action to emergencies
- traumaLasting psychological wound
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