Prior to our team's arrival the normal referral process will be initiated. This system helps us save valuable time and get the proper care to your patient quicker. The nurse or physician may contact Cook Children's Medical Center via the Communications Center by using a direct connect (blue) phone or calling 1-682-885-3901 or 1-800-543-4878.
Call 1-682-885-3901
Most ER patients can be accepted without talking to the Emergency Room physician at Cook Children's. Some of the patient types that require physician-to-physician contact include:
- Active seizures
- Altered mental status
- Fever with a rash
- Patients who have received more than one 20 ml/kg fluid bolus
- Patients with severe respiratory distress
- Dislocations, open fractures, or fractures/dislocations with neuro or vascular compromise, angulations > 30 degrees or displacement > 50%
- Intubated trauma, intracranial bleeds, GCS < 8, or multi-system trauma
- Cardiac and hematology/oncology evaluated on case-by-case basis, age not a factor