PedsCCM is a collaborative, independent, information resource and communication tool for professionals caring for critically ill and injured infants and children. We are seeking articles, lectures, literature reviews, case reports and practical materials, e.g., clinical pathways: all original educational material submitted is peer reviewed. Read about the variety of ways you can contribute in our How to Help section.

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PedsCCM is the number one non-commercial site on the net for pediatric critical care; search Google, Alta Vista, or Ask Jeeves with "pediatric critical care" and see what site comes up first. In 2005, PedsCCM had 3.63 million page requests and 164,565 downloads (a total of 156.1 gigabytes of data transferred) in 1.3 million visits by 468,867 unique visitors. And with our physician and nursing jobs databases, there were 91,813 searches by 7,211 different visitors!

PedsCCM - the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Website - is not affiliated or supported by PCCM - the journal Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Information about this journal is available here. Dr. Patrick Kochanek is the editor of PCCM and can be contacted at pccm@sccm.org

PedsCCM has been supported in part by the Section on Critical Care of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Pediatric Critical Care Colloquium. It is now supported in whole by The Virtual PICU (see editorial note)

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PedsCCM editor:Barry Markovitz, MD MPH