Emergency Medicine
Note: If your child is experiencing a life-threatening emergency, call 911 immediately.
Visit a Phoenix Children’s Emergency Department location if your child experiences the following symptoms:
- Acute mental or behavioral health concerns, including suicidal thoughts
- Blurred vision or loss of vision
- Broken bones and/or dislocated joints
- Chest pain or pressure
- Coughing or vomiting blood
- Dehydration
- Difficulty breathing
- Disorientation or difficulty speaking
- Fainting, loss of consciousness or unresponsiveness
- Severe lethargy
- Fever over 100.4° Fahrenheit in an infant under 2 months of age
- Large, deep or gaping cuts with bleeding that won’t stop
- Medication overdose
- Seizures
- Severe allergic reactions or asthma attacks
- Severe pain due to injury or illness
- Sudden dizziness or loss of coordination
- Sudden numbness or weakness
- Traumatic head injury or eye injury