Clinical Pathways

At Arkansas Children’s we provide the highest quality medical care. By utilizing clinical pathways as tools to guide evidence-based medical care for our pediatric population, and making them available to clinicians, we aim to reduce variation, improve quality of care, and maximize patient outcomes.

About the Clinical Pathway Program

Clinical pathways are developed by pediatric clinical experts and translate clinical practice guideline recommendations into clinical processes of care within the unique culture and environment of Arkansas Children’s. It details the steps in a course of treatment or care in a plan, pathway, algorithm, or guideline, to standardize care for a specific clinical problem, procedure or episode of healthcare in a specific population. This process helps the clinician to provide care utilizing the latest scientific evidence and aids in medical decision making.

Pediatric Clinical Pathways

• Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
• Acetaminophen Toxicity
• Anaphylaxis
• Bronchiolitis
• Community-Acquired Pneumonia
• Deep Vein Thrombosis - Catheter Driven Thrombolysis
• Early Onset Sepsis - NICU
• Ethanol Lock Therapy
• Fever and Neutropenia - ED
• Fever and Neutropenia for BMT - ED
• Gastroschisis and Intestinal Atresia - NICU 
• Headache - ED/Inpatient
• Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome
• Hypertension - Ambulatory Care
• Intussusception 
• Ischemic Extremity
• Jaundice - Neonatal ≥ 35 Weeks Gestation
• Ketogenic Diet
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC - NICU)
• Non-Narcotic Pain Medicine - Orthopedics
• Sepsis - CVICU
• Sepsis - ED/Inpatient
• Sepsis - Neonatal ED/Inpatient
• Sepsis - Neonatal PICU
• Sepsis - PICU
• Sepsis - Referring Facility
• Sexually Transmitted Infection Management in Sexual Assault
• Sickle Cell Disease - Acute Chest ED/Inpatient
• Sickle Cell Disease Pain Crisis
• Snakebite - Pit Viper
• Somatic Symptom and Related Disorder (SSRD)
• Spontaneous Pneumothorax - Chest Tube Insertion/Management
• Status Epilepticus
• Stroke - Acute Pediatric
• Terbutaline
• Testicular Torsion – Operations Center/ED
• Vascular Access
• Well-Appearing Infant with Fever (8-60 days of age)

NOVEL Coronavirus Screening Pathways

• Arkansas Children's Hospital
  • Inpatient
  • Perioperative
  • Ambulatory
  • Emergency Department
    
    
• Arkansas Children's Northwest
  • Inpatient
  • Perioperative
  • Ambulatory
  • Emergency Department
    
    
• COVID-19 Treatment Pathway
• Multi-Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Pathway
• Guidelines for Management of Patients on Special Respiratory Enhanced Contact