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Harbor:Pediatric ED (main)
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See Adult ED for the main adult Harbor page.
Contents
Background
This is the main page for Harbor-UCLA Pediatric ED.
General Administrative
Managing your Patient
Ordering
- Use the Peds ED tab on Cerner Place Orders for PED quick orders
- For medication orders
- Remember that pediatric medications are often dosed on a per kg basis
- Cerner does not automatically stop at a maximum dose, so check that you are not ordering more than an adult dose
- Separate Saline Lock order is not needed if you are ordering an IV medication or IV bolus
- If you are ordering a blood draw and want an IV also, must separately order saline lock
- For medication orders
- Ordering a Formal Ultrasound
- Ultrasound approval list
- Ordering a CT
- Ordering Blood Products
- Ordering antibiotics
Documenting
Procedures
Finding Things
Special patient types
- For patients followed in a pediatric subspecialty clinic, particularly Hematology-Oncology & Cardiology, call the subspecialist on call to notify them of the patient's ED visit
- Psychiatric patients
