Pediatric Care
Prepare for the unique and often difficult challenges of pediatric patient assessment and treatment with our collection of expert-written columns, original video and news.
The EMS crew was about to administer epinephrine, “only they hadn’t noticed what I had; the patient’s heart rate was 268”
Consider adding these often-encountered patients to your EMT or paramedic class’s patient assessment drills or high-fidelity patient simulations
Books
Next time you select a book for your child, consider these EMS-themed reads
In a 911 call, the suspect’s oldest child is heard sobbing while trying to give dispatchers the location of the minivan
Officer Scott Valdez, who brought the boy a Happy Meal, offered some advice on when to call in an emergency
Officials said no ambulances were available due to an influx of calls around the same time as the toddler’s drowning
Paramedics will pick up and transport Jimmy to a shopping mall, where he will participate in the 13th annual Safe Street Trick-or-Treat
The 18-month-old was not breathing and unresponsive after choking on a goldfish cracker
A lighting system inside the rig shows stars and fireworks on the ceiling to provide a distraction
Responders credited the 6-year-old boy’s father for using his belt to make a tourniquet around his son’s injured leg
Spence Elementary School student pepper sprayed 15 students while they were riding on a school bus full with 50 passengers
A student allegedly brought marshmallow marijuana edibles to school and distributed them to fellow students
The driver of the ambulance swerved to miss the child, but he was hit in the head by the side mirror of the vehicle
The lawsuit claims EMS providers bypassed closer hospitals, instead transporting Zachary Polsenberg to a hospital 20 miles away after he collapsed during practice
An EF-2 tornado hit a behavioral health center at a Sioux Falls hospital, prompting the evacuations of 102 patients, including 39 adolescents
Authorities believe the bus driver suffered a medical emergency before the bus crashed and ended up on its side in a ditch
Paramedic Bart Buckendorf will visit more than 30 towns to teach a class and raise awareness of the dangers of SIDS
We’ve all heard about getting ‘back to the basic,’ but sometimes paramedics need to make sure they get back to the advanced, as well
One adult and one child were transported via an air ambulance to the hospital
Ivan Mazurkiewicz performs magic tricks for his youngest patients as a way to calm them down and make their ride to the hospital less stressful
The father and son duo were driving four-wheelers out in the countryside of Oklahoma over the weekend when Brody’s dad drove his ATV into a ravine
A level-two mass casualty event was declared to free up the resources needed to address a large number of injured people
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office arrested Thomas Peltier for 45 counts of possessing child pornography
EMS agencies in Florida started the program and were able to successfully reduce the infant mortality rate from 13 deaths a year to three
Robert Stambaugh, 60, pleaded guilty in March to three child pornography counts
State health agency officials said his suspension would stay until he resolves all criminal charges
Nathan Hylek received a FaceTime call from his 20-month old daughter and when he realized his wife was having a medical emergency, he dialed 911
While London’s mom was being treated by paramedics, the firefighters took London’s attention and gave him a tour of the fire truck and let him play with the water hose
NASEMSO developed the product resource to help EMS reference and compare products that ambulance industry manufacturers develop
After a 12-year absence, Airlift Northwest established a permanent base in Wenatchee Valley
Rasheen Hill is a mental health therapy coordinator who is required to take annual CPR classes for his job
The waiver allows students to go through the EMT program and take the state certification exam at 16-and-a-half years old