Voices of Pandemic Care: Perspectives from Pediatric Providers During the First SARS-CoV-2 Surge

Abstract

Pediatric providers were called on to care for adult patients well beyond their typical scope of practice during the first surge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here, the authors share novel viewpoints and innovations from the perspective of providers, consultants, and families. The authors enumerate several of the challenges encountered, including those faced by leadership in supporting teams, balancing competing responsibilities to children while caring for critically ill adult patients, preserving the model of interdisciplinary care, maintaining communication with families, and finding meaning in work during this unprecedented crisis.

Keywords: Critical care; Interdisciplinary care; Palliative care; Pandemic; Perspectives; Scope of practice.