Pediatrics & Neonatal Clinical Guidelines

Pediatrics and neonatal guidelines index: AAP clinical practice guidelines, AHA/AAP resuscitation, SSC pediatric sepsis, and IDSA/PIDS pneumonia, with sources.

Editorial responsibility: The Clinical Database

This index lists the professional-society guidelines that govern pediatric and neonatal practice, with the publisher, the current edition, the stated scope, and a link to the source for each. It is the source list from which this department’s guideline syntheses are being built. The parent hub is Pediatrics & Neonatal.

Governing guidelines

Guideline	Publisher	Edition	Scope	Source
Clinical Practice Guideline: The Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Bronchiolitis	American Academy of Pediatrics	2014, revises 2006	Diagnosis, severity assessment, management, and prevention of bronchiolitis in children 1 through 23 months of age	Pediatrics
Evaluation and Management of Well-Appearing Febrile Infants 8 to 60 Days Old	American Academy of Pediatrics	2021	Evaluation and management of well-appearing term infants 8 to 60 days of age with fever, in three age bands	Pediatrics
Clinical Practice Guideline Revision: Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant 35 or More Weeks of Gestation	American Academy of Pediatrics	2022, replaces 2004; stated as valid through August 2027	Risk assessment, monitoring, and treatment of hyperbilirubinemia in newborns of 35 or more weeks of gestation	Pediatrics
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity	American Academy of Pediatrics	2023	Evaluation of overweight and obesity and comorbidities, and treatment including behavioral, pharmacologic, and surgical referral pathways	Pediatrics
Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents	American Academy of Pediatrics	2019	Diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of ADHD from age 4 years to the 18th birthday in primary care	Pediatrics
Part 6: Pediatric Basic Life Support	American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics	2025	Basic life support for infants and children, for lay rescuers and health care professionals	Circulation
Part 8: Pediatric Advanced Life Support	American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics	2025	Prearrest, intra-arrest, and post-cardiac arrest care for infants and children up to 18 years, excluding newborns	Circulation
Part 5: Neonatal Resuscitation	American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics	2025; basis of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program 9th edition	Resuscitation and support of transition for newborn infants at and after birth	Circulation
Surviving Sepsis Campaign International Guidelines for the Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Children	SCCM and ESICM	2026, replaces 2020	Recognition and management of sepsis and septic shock in infants, children, and adolescents in hospital, emergency, and acute care settings; 61 statements	PubMed
Clinical Practice Guideline: 2026 Guideline Update on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older than 3 Months of Age	IDSA and PIDS	2026, replaces 2011	Diagnosis and management of community-acquired pneumonia in children older than 3 months, including pneumonia with parapneumonic effusion	IDSA
Bright Futures Guidelines and the Bright Futures/AAP Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (Periodicity Schedule)	American Academy of Pediatrics	Guidelines 4th edition; periodicity schedule 2025	Screenings, assessments, examinations, procedures, and anticipatory guidance recommended at each age-based preventive visit	AAP

How the guideline series are built

Each series on this site is a synthesis, not a summary of a single guideline. The relevant professional-society guidelines for a topic are read together, their recommendations integrated into one clinical reference, and every substantive statement carries a numbered, DOI-linked citation back to its source. Long syntheses are split into sequential part pages so each part loads fast and is individually citable. Every page carries a published date and a lastmod date in its metadata; when a source society issues a new or updated guideline, the affected series is revised and its lastmod advances. Each series is reviewed by clinicians before it publishes. This department’s series are forthcoming and will be linked here as they are published.

Frequently asked questions

What is in the pediatrics and neonatal guidelines index?

A table of the professional-society guidelines that govern pediatric and newborn practice: AAP clinical practice guidelines for bronchiolitis, febrile infants, hyperbilirubinemia, obesity, and ADHD, the AHA and AAP 2025 pediatric and neonatal resuscitation guidelines, the SCCM/ESICM 2026 pediatric sepsis guidelines, the IDSA/PIDS 2026 pediatric pneumonia guideline, and the Bright Futures periodicity schedule, each with publisher, current edition, scope, and a link to the source.

Where are the pediatric guideline syntheses?

They are forthcoming. The site’s guideline series are multi-society syntheses with DOI-linked citations, split into sequential part pages, each carrying a published date and a lastmod date and reviewed by clinicians. This department’s series will be linked from this page and from the Pediatrics & Neonatal hub as they publish. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2026 pediatric guidelines are already indexed as a series in the Critical Care department.

Should this index be used in place of the source guidelines?

No. The index identifies the governing documents and their scope. Recommendation-level content lives in the source guidelines linked in the table and, once published, in the reviewed syntheses. Local protocols and medical direction govern actual care.

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