Emergency Medicine and Critical Care concentrates on frontline acute care for children, from optimized triage in emergency departments to advanced paediatric intensive care practices that reduce morbidity and mortality. This session brings together emergency physicians, pediatric intensivists, paramedics, nurses and hospital administrators to share practical protocols for acute respiratory failure, sepsis recognition and management, trauma stabilisation, and rapid escalation pathways for deteriorating children. Emphasis will be on evidence-based, time-sensitive interventions: sepsis bundles adapted for paediatrics, airway management algorithms that reflect age-specific anatomy, and fluid and vasoactive titration protocols that prioritise organ perfusion while minimising fluid overload.

Hands-on workshops will cover paediatric resuscitation updates, intraosseous access techniques, point-of-care ultrasound for rapid diagnosis (lung, cardiac, FAST), and simulation-based team training for high-risk low-frequency events such as malignant hyperthermia and paediatric cardiac arrest. Sessions will integrate prehospital care considerations: pediatric dosing guides for EMS, safe transfer checklists and models for regionalisation of critical care to improve outcomes for severely ill children. Quality improvement strands will focus on reducing time-to-antibiotics in sepsis, improving pain management and procedural sedation safety, and decreasing unplanned PICU admissions through early-warning systems on wards.

Implementation modules include building rapid-response teams, establishing escalation criteria, and embedding checklists and cognitive aids into workflows. Speakers of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Event will outline strategies for resource-limited settings: simplified sepsis recognition tools, oxygen-sparing respiratory support, and task-shifting models to enable basic critical interventions outside tertiary centres. Ethical panels will discuss end-of-life care, family-centred decision-making in the ICU and communication best practices for difficult conversations.