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Children's Hospital of Michigan's emergency department, one of the few pediatric trauma centers in the U.S. certified by the American College of Surgeons, treats more than 70,000 patients a year, making it one of the busiest pediatric emergency services in the country. About 12 percent of those patients are admitted. Fifty-six percent of all hospital admissions originate in the emergency department.
A major renovation in 1995 increased emergency department space to 14,000 square feet, with three state-of-the-art trauma bays, 18 exam rooms, two triage rooms, two procedure/treatment rooms, a dedicated respiratory therapy room and 10 holding beds, all fully staffed and modernly equipped.
The emergency department is staffed around-the-clock by full-time pediatric board certified or eligible pediatricians. The emergency physicians provide a shared care program during off-hours for many of the pediatric subspecialists. In addition, we have and active fellowship training program.
Pediatric residents, closely supervised by staff physicians, rotate through the emergency department each year. They see patients arriving with conditions ranging from true emergencies, such as cardiac/repiratory arrest, severe trauma, status asthmaticus, diabetic ketoacidosis and status epilepticus, to urgent problems such as gastroenteritis and acute general pediatric diseases.