Pediatric Emergency Medicine

In this episode, we are joined by Brad Goldberg, MD (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles), Erika Cheung, RN (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles), and Pooja Nawathe, MD (Cedars-Sinai)—leaders from the LA County Special Pathogens Program. Together, we discuss how emergency clinicians can recognize, isolate, and respond to patients with emerging infectious diseases using the practical Identify, Isolate, Inform (III) framework. From travel screening and PPE to isolation protocols and communication with public health, this episode is packed with practical pearls to help your team prepare before the next outbreak arrives.