The Great Lakes Emergency Medical Services for Children Research Network (GLEMSCRN) is part of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). PECARN is the first federally-funded multi-institutional network for research in pediatric emergency medicine in the United States. The goal of this network is to conduct meaningful and rigorous multi-institutional research into the preventi
on and management of acute illnesses and injuries in children and youth across the continuum of emergency medicine health care. Ambulance crews and emergency rooms in the Midwest are able to give kids better, more coordinated and more advanced emergency medical care, thanks to a coalition of Midwestern hospitals. GLEMSCRN is one of only six nodes nationwide funded for research, training and education in pediatric emergency medicine. The network includes Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Columbus, OH), Children's Hospital of Michigan (Detroit, MI) and University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). Network members are dedicated to improving health care for ill and injured children through research and collaboration:
Performing meaningful and rigorous research to determine optimal strategies to promote health in the preventive, prehospital and hospital phases of care; and
Collaborating with EMS agencies and community groups to address emergency care needs; and collaborating with other research nodes to build rigorous and widely applicable research. The grant was given under the federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program, administered by the Health Services Research Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The Great Lakes EMSC Research Network is one of six research networks funded nationwide. The other five networks funded are the Hospitals of the Midwest Emergency Research Node (HOMERUN) centered at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Northeast, West & South (PEM-NEWS), centered at Columbia University in New York City; the Pediatric Research in Injures and Medical Emergencies (PRIME), centered at the University of California, Davis Medical Center ; the Pittsburgh, Rhode Island, Delaware Network (PRIDENET), centered at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; and the Washington, Boston, Chicago Applied Research Node (WBCARN) centered at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. EMSC is a national initiative designed to reduce disability and death in children and young people from severe illness and injury. It focuses on prevention, and on ensuring that all ill or injured children receive state-of-the-art emergency medical care from emergency medical technicians and paramedics, emergency department personnel, and rehabilitation specialists.
