Fayetteville Standard

Springdale First Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church issued the following announcement on July 11.

If your child is admitted to the hospital, he or she may receive care from a pediatric hospitalist.

While most parents may better understand the role of a general pediatrician, a pediatric hospitalist’s role may be less common knowledge but no less vital to a child’s care.

Bronwyn Carlson, MD, a pediatric hospitalist and the acute care pediatrics medical director at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, helps explain.

Whereas general pediatricians usually spend the majority of their time providing care for children in an outpatient setting, pediatric hospitalists care for children who are hospitalized with various illnesses, Carlson says.

“We provide a breadth of treatments for hospitalized children, from procedures and medication management to care coordination for acute illness and chronic disease with acute flares,” she says. “We also care for kids who are technology dependent and need machines called ventilators to help them breathe or surgically place tubes in their stomach to feed them.”

Pediatric hospitalists communicate directly with a child’s primary pediatrician when a child is hospitalized to ensure the continuation of care. Carlson says pediatric hospitalists are generally accessible 24 hours a day.

Original source can be found here.

Source: Springdale First Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church