Pediatric Critical Care and the Climate Emergency: Our Responsibilities and a Call for Change.

ABSTRACT: Critical care is perhaps one of the most "climate-intensive" divisions of health care. As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the unprecedented threat of climate change has belatedly prompted an increased awareness of critical care's environmental impact. Within our role as pediatric critical care providers, we have a dual responsibility not only to care for children at their most vulnerable, but also to advocate on their behalf. There are clear, demonstrable effects of our worsening climate on the health of children, with the resultant increased burden of pediatric critical illness and disruption to health care systems. From increasing wildfires and their effect on lung health, to the spread of vector-borne diseases such as dengue, and the increased migration of children due to a c

SUBMITTER: Wooldridge G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7468581 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature