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GULF COAST REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER • A MONTHLY PUBLICATION FOR EMPLOYEES • SEPTEMBER 2015

Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center is pleased to offer pediatric sedation services for infants, children and adolescents, both inpatient

and outpatient. The new service can be utilized for several procedures/modalities including:

• MRI

• CT scan

• Dressing changes for wounds

• Nuclear medicine

• Hearing evaluations (auditory brainstem response or ABR)

• Lumbar punctures (spinal taps)

• PICC placements

• Interventional radiology procedures

• EEG

• Echocardiogram

Our pediatric intensivists, registered nurses and child life specialist work very closely with our patients and families to determine the

most appropriate sedation plan.

For more information, call MindyYoung or Pam Norman at (850) 767-2220.

Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center Now Offering

Pediatric Sedation Services

Nationally-ranked health care close to home. It’s what every patient with a hard-to-heal wound hopes for. At The Center forWound Care of

Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center, it’s a reality. Our wound care program is accredited by the Joint Commission and recognized as a National

Center of Excellence. Our healing rate is higher than the national average. Our doctors, nurses and staff promise:

• All of our physicians are surgically-trained

• A treatment plan to meet our patient’s specific needs

• Care that meets national standards.

Patients are cared for by our skilled team of physicians and wound care specialists, who are committed to the management of chronic, non-

healing wounds in an outpatient setting.This is accomplished by providing wound assessment, evaluation, treatment and prevention to meet the

specific needs of each

treat various types of wounds caused by conditions such as diabetes, injury, insect bites, and vascular disease.

The Center forWound Care