Sanford Guide to Pediatric Acute Care
$49.99
1-year subscription · iPhone, iPad, Android & web · works offline
- Purpose-built for pediatric acute care — not a general reference with a pediatric filter
- Continuously updated — not a three-year edition cycle
- Written by physicians at leading children's hospitals
- ~1,000+ references you can trace to PubMed
Children's hospitals and residency programs: institutional site licenses and the Localize-IT upgrade let you add your own protocols and pathways alongside Sanford Guide content. Talk to our team →
- Maximum Purchase:
- 1 unit
Built for Pediatric Acute Care
The full decision arc — manifestations to management — in one place.
The Sanford Guide to Pediatric Acute Care is a digital-first, point-of-care reference for clinicians treating sick kids in acute settings — inpatient, the ED, urgent care, and office sick visits. It carries you from the first look at a patient to a clear, evidence-informed plan, in Sanford Guide's signature concise format.
01
Clinical manifestations
Recognize the presentation and frame the differential — fast.
02
Diagnostics
Order the right work-up with practical, age-appropriate guidance.
03
Management
Act on first-line and alternative treatment, dosed for the patient in front of you.
Why It's Different
Pediatric acute care is the whole job here — not a section of something bigger.
Most references a clinician reaches for were built for something else: a general platform with a pediatric filter, or a respected print handbook adapted into an app. Pediatric Acute Care was built, from the ground up, for the clinician treating a sick child right now.
Continuously updated — not a three-year cycle
Content is reviewed and updated continuously as evidence evolves, so the dosing or guideline you read today reflects current practice — not an edition that may be up to three years old.
Purpose-built and digital-first
Designed for the bedside: a consistent, scannable structure across 500+ topics, fast full-text search, and an app that works offline — not a textbook chapter reformatted for a phone.
A multi-institutional board, by design
Written and reviewed by pediatric clinicians from leading children's hospitals — reflecting how pediatric medicine is practiced across diverse institutions, not a single hospital's protocols.
Accessible to any clinician
An individual subscription at $49.99/year — no institutional license required. An easy personal purchase for attendings, residents, NPs, PAs, and students on rotation.
What's Inside
500+ topics across 30+ clinical categories — plus the tools to act on them.
From infectious diseases and emergency medicine to neonatology, oncology, and behavioral medicine — with diagnostic reasoning, evidence-informed therapeutics, step-by-step procedures, and pediatric calculators built in.
500+Pediatric acute care topics
30+Clinical categories
20+Built-in calculators
OfflineApp + web, works without a connection
Coverage includes
Critical & Acute Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Analgesia & Sedation
- Critical & Acute Care Procedures
- Toxicology
Organ-Based Specialties
- Cardiology
- Pulmonology
- Nephrology
- Urology
- Dermatology
- Ophthalmology
- Otolaryngology
GI, Fluids & Endocrine
- Gastroenterology
- Fluids & Electrolytes
- Endocrinology
- Nutrition
- Metabolism
Immune & Inflammatory
- Infectious Diseases
- Allergy & Asthma
- Immunology
- Rheumatology
Neurology & Psychiatry
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Behavioral Medicine
Hematology & Oncology
- Hematology
- Oncology (incl. oncologic emergencies)
Surgical Specialties
- Surgery — General
- Surgery — Orthopedic & Sports Medicine
- Dentistry & Oral Health
Pediatric Populations
- Neonatology
- Adolescent Medicine
- Complex Care
- Genetics
See It in Action
Built to find the answer fast — and act on it.
Evidence You Can Trust
Recommendations that are evidence based.
1,000+
PubMed-linked references throughout the content — so you can trace recommendations back to supporting evidence at the point of care.
500+
Topics reviewed and revised by an active editorial team, written for actionability and a consistent, scannable structure.
Since 1969
Built on Sanford Guide's editorial standard — family-owned, editorially independent, with no pharmaceutical or corporate parent.
Recommendations draw on professional-society guidelines, full prescribing information, and peer-reviewed literature — synthesized into clear, defensible guidance and continuously updated as the evidence evolves.
The Editorial Board
Named pediatric clinicians from leading children's hospitals.
Content is led by four editors and supported by 50+ subspecialty contributing authors — multi-institutional by design, reflecting how pediatric medicine is practiced across diverse institutions.
Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE, MHM
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
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
From Clinicians
What clinicians say
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions
We already use a digital pediatric reference. Why add this?
Other digital pediatric references update on a multi-year print-edition cycle, so the guideline or dose you read may be up to three years old; Pediatric Acute Care updates continuously. Other tools are written and reviewed within a single institution, while our editorial team spans multiple leading children's hospitals.
Our hospital already has a general-purpose clinical decision support resource. Is this redundant?
General CDS resources are excellent for understanding a condition in depth. Pediatric Acute Care is what you open when you need the answer in the next 60 seconds. General CDS resources cover pediatrics as one of many specialties in a long-form narrative format; this is purpose-built for pediatric acute care, with a consistent structure that takes you from manifestations to management quickly. At $49.99/year, it's an easy personal complement even when your institution already subscribes to a general CDS reference.
Is it worth it at $49.99 a year?
That's roughly one-tenth the cost of the general clinical-decision-support platforms, and it's an individual subscription — no institutional license or approval required. You get 500+ topics across 30+ categories, 20+ pediatric calculators, step-by-step procedures, and ~1,000+ PubMed-linked references, on both the app and the web, working offline. Students receive 40% off and residents 20% off. We also offer institutional subscriptions — talk to our team.
What do I get, and how do I access it?
A one-year individual subscription includes the mobile app (iPhone, iPad, Android) and full web access, with offline use once the content is downloaded. Buy here and sign in with your Sanford Guide account on any device. Prefer to try it first? A 14-day free trial is available when you download the app directly from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
How does the annual renewal work?
Use the "Renew automatically every year?" option above to choose whether your subscription renews on its own. Select Yes for uninterrupted access that renews automatically each year, or No for a one-year subscription that simply ends unless you renew it. You can change your preference at any time.
Is there a discount for students or residents?
Yes. Students receive 40% off and residents 20% off. Students can request the student discount here; programs and schools can contact us for bulk codes.
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Pediatric acute care guidance, ready at the bedside.
A one-year subscription — app and web, continuously updated, $49.99.
Add to Cart — $49.99/yearIncludes app + web access · works offline · students 40% off, residents 20% off
For children's hospitals and residency programs: institutional site licenses and the Localize-IT upgrade let you add your own protocols and pathways alongside Sanford Guide content. Talk to our team →
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