TeleER by Children’s Health℠

As an emergent health care facility, you seek ways to provide the highest quality care to all your patients – including the youngest ones. Our TeleER program is designed to support your hospital with real-time virtual care assessments by a team of pediatric emergency medicine experts. Your team can access the only ACS-verified Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Care Center in North Texas, using the latest in health care technology.

Expert support for the breadth of trauma cases

• Any change in behavior following loss of consciousness, especially after a head injury

• Bleeding you can’t stop

• Blue or purple skin or lips

• Burns or smoke inhalation

• Choking

• Electric shocks

• Losing consciousness

• Loose or knocked out teeth or other injuries to the mouth or face

• Poisoning

• Seizures (losing consciousness, muscle spasms, drooling or foaming at the mouth, falling)

• Steadily decreasing responsiveness

• Sudden impact injuries, such as from a car or bicycle accident, or falls from heights

• Trouble breathing, including asthma that is not improving with home treatments

Coordinate with one of the leading pediatric emergency rooms in the country

• Board-certified PEM attending physicians who are specially trained in pediatrics

• Only ACS-verified Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in North Texas

• One of the country’s highest volume pediatric emergency rooms – more than 175,000 annual visits

• Eighth-largest pediatric health care provider in the nation

How TeleER works

• Examine medical cases and images

• Perform real-time virtual assessments using multiple peripherals

• Confirm an accurate diagnosis

• Determine if transfer is appropriate and facilitate if necessary

• Advise on treatment plans

• Provide second opinions