University Of Chicago Children S Emergency Room

The pediatric ed is attended and directed by full time pediatric emergency medicine specialists.

University of chicago children s emergency room.

For more information please visit the comer children s hospital website. Pediatric trauma emergency services. The university of chicago medical center directs prehospital care for the entire south side of chicago. We treat more than 35 000 patients each year including hundreds with complex trauma injuries including the most pediatric penetrating trauma in the region.

Our state of the art pediatric emergency facility features the latest diagnostic and treatment equipment to provide comprehensive emergency care to children. University of chicago emergency medicine residents rotate through the pediatric ed pediatric icu neonatal icu and serve as ucan flight physician for pediatric medical and trauma transports. The university of chicago comer children s hospital pediatric emergency department is the only level i pediatric trauma center on the southeast side of chicago. The command center for the chicago south mobile intensive care system is located in a specialized telemetry room within.

The pediatric ed patient census for 2008 was 33 000 thus a total of nearly 90 000 emergency patients are taken care of annually at the university of chicago medical center.