Find it by topic

The collection grew one need at a time — a surge, a burn incident, a new law, a request from a partner. Grouped by topic, it reads as a set: start with the planning products, move to the clinical references your teams will reach for during an incident, then to the exercises that test whether the plan holds.

The Western Regional Alliance for Pediatric Emergency Management develops regional pediatric disaster planning and response capabilities that match resources to needs in a catastrophic incident. Established in 2019 and serving more than 14 million children across the western United States, WRAP-EM works by identifying the gaps children face in a crisis, building public, private and healthcare partnerships across the spectrum of pediatric disaster care, and elevating those partnerships to improve care in disasters and everyday emergencies. This section collects the overview material and the resources behind its named initiatives.

WRAP-EM's foundational planning products. The Playbook and its companion table are the reference for pediatric surge management at any operational level; the Crisis Standards of Care template extends that planning to the point where demand exceeds resources.

The planning context around clinical response: the law that governs an emergency declaration, the community partners a hospital needs before the incident, the assets that can be requested, and the threats that arrive over the network rather than the ambulance bay.

Children in a mass casualty incident demand rapid triage, coordinated patient movement and care from teams that may not routinely treat pediatric patients. These guides put the right tools in front of those teams without a search.

Moving pediatric patients out of a facility and back to their families is where adult-oriented plans most often break down. These products cover the decision to evacuate, the paperwork that travels with the child, and the reception site that receives the family.

Built during successive pediatric respiratory surges for emergency departments and non-pediatric clinicians caring for children while specialty beds are full or transfer is delayed.

Adult providers will care for children in any large incident. These references bring pediatric fundamentals to the bedside and describe how telehealth can put a pediatric specialist in the room remotely.

Developed with the Western Region Burn Disaster Consortium — 26 burn centers based in Utah — under WRAP-EM's ASPR award. The set runs from coalition-level surge planning down to a card that clips to a badge.

A two-part series on pharmaceutical countermeasures — antidotes and cytokines — after radiation exposure or internal contamination. The pediatric edition fills a documented gap in countermeasure research; the adult edition is its companion just-in-time reference.

Five complete, HSEEP-aligned pediatric tabletop exercises for healthcare coalitions and hospitals — about three hours each, in person or virtual, with six numbered files from preparation to after-action. The kits have their own page with scenarios, module themes and how-to guidance.