As an Emergency Medicine Specialist, I am sure you recognize the value and importance of Primary Care follow up of your pediatric patients. Many of the pediatric patients who present to the ED have chronic complaints which cannot be fully addressed on the day of the visit and require long-term care. The lack of primary care often leads to worsening medical and psychiatric problems with repeated ED visits and overall poor outcome. In addition, the lack of primary care sometimes leads to low rate of vaccination and preventative medicine which puts our pediatric population at risk for severe acute medical and psychiatric problems.

With the help of the Nevada Chapter of the AAP, we have put together a handout encouraging your patients to follow-up with a PCP after their ED visit to help improve outcome and reduce unnecessary ED visits. We hope this will improve the physical and mental well being of pediatric patients in the Nevada Pediatric Community.

Best Regards,

Yaron Ivan MD

Pediatric EM Fellowship Site Director,

Child Abuse Medical Director

Sunrise Children's Hospital, Las Vegas NV

Host/Founder PEM Rules Podcast