Children's Medical Center Dallas Emergency Services provides urgent and emergent care for over 110,000 patients per year in a total of 61 patient beds.  Services provided include:

• four (4) bed referral care center
• eight (8) bed urgent care center
• six (6) bed "23 hour observation unit"
• seven (7) bed asthma treatment center
• three (3) dedicated critical care/trauma resuscitation rooms
• a specialized biohazard decontamination area
• a multipurpose sub-specialty room
• advanced radiology technology including:  portable ultrasound, digital Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) and a mobile fluoroscopic c-arm 

The emergency services 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.  Sixty thousand patients seen annually in the emergency center are of high acuity and result in a 20% admissions rate. 

Attending physicians support for the emergency center is provided by full-time and clinical faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas.  Pediatric Emergency training is provided for emergency medicine, family practice, and pediatric residency training programs.  A fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine provides training for three (3) fellows per year. 

The emergency center serves as the "clinical laboratory" for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Faculty where more than a dozen investigative studies are on-going and designed to answer critical questions that will improve the care provided to children in crisis.  Study themes include treatment of respiratory diseases, pain management and sedation, injury epidemiology, non-invasive monitoring, and brain injury research.