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.
Providing effective pediatric care starts with confronting your challenges with children
Rethinking EMS response to pediatric emergency care, trauma, pain management and arrests
One medical director is challenging the current pediatric intubation paradigm, exploring direct and video laryngoscopy
You responded to a female teenager complaining of headache, nausea, vomiting and dizziness; did you get the diagnosis right?
Intuition is a valuable instinct; when the details don’t add up follow procedures to report suspicions of child abuse or neglect
Police responded to a report of a woman with serious injuries.; discovered bodies of children inside
Ambulance called for 13-month-old in distress; authorities also find unresponsive infant
Authorities and healthcare providers fail to protect and report signs of abuse
Medics and EMTs from Station 32 hosted five children for a holiday party
The 9-year-old driver tried to avoid a police checkpoint; a state trooper followed the car which ran off the road and overturned, ejecting two boys ages 3 and 13 who died
She helped deliver the baby in the front seat of her truck about a half-mile from the hospital
Police report 1-year-old found unresponsive and rushed to hospital; concern grows for more poisonous ingestions as e-cigarettes rise in popularity
Healthcare providers assist flight crew with delivery of baby boy aboard airliner over California
The 18-month-old was resuscitated but died after being taken off life support
Dozens injured after two buses collide on Tenn. highway
Two adults and four children were ejected when the buggy ran a stop sign; a 3-month-old was airlifted to a hospital
Police say he may have encountered his victims though his work with an EMS program that helps teens
Steve Dove was given the prestigious Governor’s EMS Award for his outstanding work with children to promote their involvement with emergency medical services
He is unable to speak because of a broken jaw, but has shown signs of recovery
Firefighters climbed through a window to pull her out; she was not breathing so they performed CPR
The high school student sprang to action when an 11-month old stopped breathing at a Wal-Mart
After scaling the cliff, medic Marco Barros told 4-year-old Sebastion Johnson to think of Spiderman as he loaded the boy into a rescue basket
Coma, seizures, and chemical burns can occure when children and family mistake the laundry detergent containers for toys
Two firefighter-paramedics rappelled the cliff with a rescue basket; the boy was awake and crying
Medics transported the children, ages 9 and 3, to the hospital where they were pronounced dead
The 2-year-old was rushed to the hospital after the JetBlue plane was given priority landing in Boston
Police made multiple arrests after the twin sisters and their friend were struck on Halloween by a driver that fled the scene
Instead of safety seats, medics have been told to strap children to pediatric harnesses; many medics say they are too large for children under four
Police are investigating why a 7-month-old girl was left in the car for hours; the father was driving and called 911 as soon as he noticed her
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