The main goal of this paper was to collect and establish the knowledge of students attending the Faculty of Health Studies about emergency states in pediatrics. The research proces included bachelor and master students of the Faculty of Health Studies located in Rijeka. The data was collected by anonymous questionnaires. The data used in the paper: years,gender, working status, yearsof study, profession , knowledge and experience about emergency states in pediatrics. The collected data was used exclusively for composing statistics which was needed in the proces of making this paper. The most common emergecy states in pediatrics are described in the paper. States and occasions which demand urgent reactions are: anaphylaxis, heart failure, obstacles in the respiratory tract, asthma attack, consciousness disorder, epileptic seizure, inherited anomalies in newborns,f ebrile convulsions, diabetic hypoglycaemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, dehydration, poisoning and burns. Also, there are presented statistic data about knowledge of the students attending the Faculty of Health Studies about emergency states and if their knowledge is adequatly or not.