A two-day national conference on “Making the Emergency Department Paediatric Ready,” jointly organised by KIMSHEALTH, the Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) Trivandrum Chapter, IAP Kerala Chapter, and IAP Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Chapter, concluded here on Sunday.

Close to 300 doctors participated in the two-day event, with 49 faculty members from India and abroad leading the sessions.

Inaugurating the conference, chairperson and managing director of KIMSHEALTH M.I. Sahadulla noted that paediatric emergency medicine had come a long way in India and that it needed to be extended to the periphery.

Radhika Raman, national president, IAP PEM 2024, delivered the keynote address.

Those who spoke included A. Marthanda Pillai, managing director, Ananthapuri Hospitals and Research Institute; A.K. Goel, national president, IAP PEM 2025; Riaz I., president, IAP Kerala State; Sreejith Kumar C., secretary, IAP Thiruvananthapuram; Bharat Choudhary, national secretary, IAP PEM Chapter 2024, among others.

Pre-conference workshops

Five pre-conference workshops were conducted at KIMSHEALTH, Ananthapuri Hospitals and Research Institute, and SP Medifort, Thiruvananthapuram.

Some of the topics deliberated at the conference included AI in Paediatric Emergency Triage: Revolutionising First Response, Mastering Paediatric CPR: Quality Over Quantity, The Biomarker Revolution in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, and Paediatric Emergency Care in Resource-Limited Settings: Doing More with Less.