Emergency

The American Kidney Fund activated its Disaster Relief Program to support post-transplant patients and patients on dialysis impacted by tornados in Kentucky, Arkansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee on Dec. 10 and 11.

The FDA on Friday authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years.

In this video, Lisa A. Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN, discusses the major concerns of health care workers during the pandemic.

The AAP and other pediatric groups on Tuesday declared that a “worsening crisis in child and adolescent mental health” brought on by COVID-19 “and the ongoing struggle for racial justice” constitutes a national emergency.

A new report showed that about 15 million Americans who enrolled in Medicaid during the public health emergency could lose coverage when the emergency declaration ends.

Emergency psychiatric services and clinical and diagnostic COVID-19 screening of psychiatric emergency patients are needed during the ongoing pandemic, according to study results published in Journal of Psychiatric Research.

The CDC has activated its emergency operations center to augment its efforts in the current interagency investigation of cases of lung injury associated with electronic cigarette use, or vaping, according to a press release.

ORLANDO — All infusion suite staff, including nurses and physicians, should participate in code drills to help them prepare for anaphylactoid reactions, heart attacks or any other adverse events that could arise while administering the treatment, according to Timothy R. Walker, RN.

An emergency committee convened by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, met for the fourth time today to review the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, and determined that the outbreak meets the criteria to be declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, or PHEIC.