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?
How did you do? Make sure to share your results and challenge your EMS colleagues to match or beat your score
A teenager’s death after a misplaced and unrecognized failed intubation is a tragic reminder of how and why error can occur in EMS
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
The helicopter will be equipped with possibly lifesaving technology to keep any sick newborns alive
The child had climbed atop the kitchen stove when it fell over, crushing him underneath; medics were unable to revive him
The woman also threatened to kill a police officer all while her 2-week-old baby was strapped to her
This is one of the highest numbers since 2004
His wife started going into labor unexpectedly, about four weeks before the due date
The three apparently got lost while hiking the desolate trail
A medic said the sigh of the little boy’s chemical burns was one of the worst she’d ever seen
The young girl suffered severe head injuries after apparently opening the rear emergency door and falling out
The child’s coach said that he was certain at least 30 minutes passed before paramedics arrived
The 37-year-old woman was shopping when she unexpectedly went into labor
The child was shot in the head with what police think was a bullet fired from a gun during a New Year celebration
The 27-year-old had just dropped off all his passengers at a shopping centre when he got a call from his frantic wife
The fact is more children are stabilized and life threats averted through the provision of the basics
The anatomic differences between adult and pediatric airways are well described in EMT and paramedic courses
An on-duty officer at the tunnel’s security point sprang into action to help
The boy was born without a fully developed airway and stopped breathing
The baby came just seconds after paramedics arrived
Company also sent a care package full of their new products after learning of boy’s plight
Doctors expect the now separated twins to live full independent lives
She and her mother were pinned against the building
After one of the brothers suffered complications from chicken pox, only his twin brother seems to understand him
