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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".08" citation="COMAR 30.08.08.08" title_num="30" subtitle_num="08" chapter_num="08" heading="Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The hospital shall have a separate PICU with the capability to care for all significantly injured children.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The PICU shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Have appropriately trained registered nurse staff to care for the critically injured child to include:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Brain injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Spinal cord injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Solid organ injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Chest injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Complex musculoskeletal injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Burns;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Eye injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(h)">
        <text>Hand and upper extremity injury; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(i)">
        <text>Lower extremity injury;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Be staffed at a level to ensure appropriate nurse-patient ratios as determined by written nursing standards;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Have a written plan to:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Triage children from the PICU to accommodate acute admissions; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Provide alternative critical care beds with appropriately trained pediatric critical care registered nurses;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Have available the pediatric resuscitation equipment and medications;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Have the equipment and capability for continuous invasive monitoring of the critically injured child;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Have extracorporeal membrane oxygenation capability;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Have capability for all renal replacement therapies; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Have support services with immediate access to clinical diagnostic services and stat lab.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>