
The AAP recently updated its recommendations for pediatric intermediate care units for the first time since 2004, providing new guidance for their development and operation.
The guidance was written by a nine-member AAP task force that included experts on hospital care, critical care and surgery. It was published in a policy statement in Pediatrics.
Healio spoke with co-author Nicholas A. Ettinger, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of pediatrics and critical care at Baylor College of Medicine, about the new guidance.
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