Pediatric emergency medicine deals with critical or emergency care of infants, children and adolescents. A pediatric emergency medicine physician has special knowledge and training in treatment and medications for children who are critically ill because of injury or disease. An emergency physician, also called an intensivist, acts immediately to prevent death or disability to a young patient in a hospital intensive care department or elsewhere if a patient requires emergency care.
Doctor density varies by specialty and location. The United States has 1,634 practicing pediatric emergency medicine doctors. Broken out by state, pediatric emergency medicine doctor density in Alabama is 23, in Alaska is 1, in Arizona is 34, in Arkansas is 12, in California is 121, in Colorado is 27, in Connecticut is 28, in Delaware is 19, in District of Columbia is 35, in Florida is 127, in Georgia is 71, in Hawaii is 8, in Idaho is 1, in Illinois is 55, in Indiana is 13, in Iowa is 12, in Kansas is 6, in Kentucky is 20, in Louisiana is 19, in Maine is 4, in Maryland is 36, in Massachusetts is 81, in Michigan is 54, in Minnesota is 37, in Mississippi is 4, in Missouri is 73, in Nebraska is 8, in Nevada is 18, in New Jersey is 62, in New Mexico is 9, in New York is 216, in North Carolina is 29, in Ohio is 116, in Oklahoma is 8, in Oregon is 9, in Pennsylvania is 85, in Rhode Island is 20, in South Carolina is 11, in Tennessee is 71, in Texas is 101, in Utah is 21, in Vermont is 1, in Virginia is 32, in Washington is 33, in West Virginia is 6, and in Wisconsin is 16.
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