New Tool Helps Emergency Rooms Predict Agitation in Children

A compassionate pediatric dentist calmly speaks with an anxious young boy holding a teddy bear in a pediatric emergency room.

The pediatric emergency room is a pressure cooker. You have frightened children, often in the middle of a terrifying mental or behavioral health crisis. You have overwhelmed parents. And you have an ER staff trying desperately to keep everyone—the patient, themselves, and other families—safe. The single most dangerous variable in that entire equation has always … Read more