Sanford Guide to Pediatric Acute Care
Fast answers for the sick child in front of you.
1-year subscription · iPhone, iPad, Android & web · works offline
- Written by physicians at Cincinnati Children's, CHOP, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Columbia
- Revised continuously as the evidence changes
- More than 1,000 references you can trace to PubMed
From Sanford Guide, trusted by clinicians since 1969.
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From first look to treatment plan.
Every topic runs the same three steps, so you always know where the answer sits.
Clinical manifestations
What you are looking at, and what else it could be.
Diagnostics
The work-up that fits the age and the acuity.
Management
First-line and alternative treatment, dosed for the patient.
Revised as the evidence changes
When a guideline or a dose changes, the topic changes. No waiting on the next edition.
Edited across institutions
Four children's hospitals lead the content, plus 50+ subspecialty authors.
1,000+ references
Linked to PubMed, so you can check the evidence behind any recommendation.
No pharma funding
Family owned and editorially independent since 1969.
Built for pediatric acute care, and nothing else.
Inpatient, the ED, urgent care, office sick visits. 500+ topics with the calculators and procedures to act on them.
- Emergency Medicine
- Analgesia & Sedation
- Critical & Acute Care Procedures
- Toxicology
- Cardiology
- Pulmonology
- Nephrology
- Urology
- Dermatology
- Ophthalmology
- Otolaryngology
- Gastroenterology
- Fluids & Electrolytes
- Endocrinology
- Nutrition
- Metabolism
- Infectious Diseases
- Allergy & Asthma
- Immunology
- Rheumatology
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Behavioral Medicine
- Hematology
- Oncology
- General Surgery
- Orthopedic Surgery & Sports Medicine
- Dentistry & Oral Health
- Neonatology
- Adolescent Medicine
- Complex Care
- Genetics
The editors put their names on it.
Four pediatric clinicians from leading children's hospitals lead the content, with more than 50 subspecialty authors behind them.

Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE, MHM
Cincinnati Children's

Marina Catallozzi, MD, MSCE
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gary Frank, MD, MS, FAAP
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Jeanine C. Ronan, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
What clinicians say
Questions
We already use a pediatric handbook. Why this?
Print handbooks are revised on a multi-year edition cycle, so the dose or the guideline you look up can be three years old. This is revised as the evidence changes. The editorial team also spans four children's hospitals rather than one, so the recommendations reflect practice across institutions.
Our hospital already has a general clinical decision support platform. Is this redundant?
Those platforms are built for reading about a condition in depth. This is what you open with the patient in front of you and a decision to make in the next minute, covering pediatric acute care and nothing else. Plenty of clinicians carry both.
What do I get, and how does renewal work?
A one-year subscription covering the app (iPhone, iPad, Android) and full web access, with offline use once content is downloaded. Sign in with your Sanford Guide account on any device. Use the "Renew automatically every year?" option above to pick Yes for access that continues each year, or No for a single year that ends unless you renew. You can change it any time.
Is it worth $49.99 a year?
It is roughly a tenth of what the large clinical decision support platforms cost, and you can buy it yourself without institutional approval. Students get 40% off; request the student discount here. Institutional site licenses are also available, so talk to our team.
Clinical guidance, distilled by expert clinicians.
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