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.
What does the peer-reviewed literature say on the efficacy of the management of the pediatric airway by EMS providers?
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A teenager’s death after a misplaced and unrecognized failed intubation is a tragic reminder of how and why error can occur in EMS
The teacher had brought in a vial of her own blood for the children to look at
The boy was attacked by two of the dogs; another woman was also injured
50 teddy bears were donated and put in more than 30 emergency vehicles
The ambulance is larger and is described as a “virtual intensive care room on wheels”
The boy had suffered a concussion, broken nose and ohter injuries
The mother and her two baby girls are okay and are recovering in the hospital
The little girl has an enlarged heart and will eventually require a heart transplant
The 11-year-old girl is the fourth to die after her father and two of her three sisters were also killed
The students suffered itchy skin and other skin irritations
A girl who just learned about static electricity may have accidentally sparked the blaze
The girl wrapped her sister in a blanket to keep warm overnight after their mother was killed in the accident
Frigid air may have preserved infant’s brain function
It’s not known what role, if any, hypothermia played in the case
The odds of that occurring is one in 70 million
She was placed in a luggage carrier and pulled by her neighbors
The woman was just outside a mall when her water broke
The five-year-old died after falling into an icy pond
A government-funded analysis has found that more research is needed for treatment and medications
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Christian Bale spoke with the boy about his favorite superhero Batman
The temperature was no warmer than 15 degrees
After a truck is hit, the baby flies out of broken window landing on the road and almost hit by a passing semi
A judge has thrown out a medical examiner’s conclusion that a baby’s death was caused by the rat poison her mother ate
The 20-month-old fell and got a colored pencil stuck in her eye
By the time the man got to the ambulance base, the baby’s head was already crowning
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has singled out the greater Salt Lake region as having the nation’s worst air for much of January
The shark got close to shore, scaring the young kids
The boy had climbed over the fence and was attacked by the canine
The man is also accused of setting a cat on a fire that was later found dead