The Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center works with emergency services at Children's Medical Center Dallas to provide urgent and emergent care for more than 110,000 patients each year. It is the pediatric trauma center for Dallas County and provides after-hours emergency care for a variety of complex problems in children with special health care needs. 

Services provided include:

• Referral and urgent care centers
• A continuous observation unit
• An asthma treatment center
• Dedicated critical care/trauma resuscitation rooms
• A specialized biohazard decontamination area
• A multipurpose sub-specialty room

The facility also utilizes advanced radiological technology including portable ultrasound, a digital Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) and a mobile fluoroscopic

c-arm, which gives our physicians a real-time picture of fractures and dislocations and can assist with locating and removing foreign objects from soft tissues right at the patient’s bedside.

Clinical physicians from UT Southwestern provide attending physician support for Children’s emergency center. In addition, the center serves as a “clinical laboratory” for UT Southwestern’s pediatric emergency medicine physicians, leading to new and innovative treatments for pediatric patients that can be applied directly to emergency center patients. More than a dozen investigative studies are ongoing that are designed to answer critical questions and improve the care provided to children in crisis. Study areas include treatment of respiratory diseases, pain management and sedation, injury epidemiology, noninvasive monitoring and brain-injury research.