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.
For every action in EMS there are consequences — sometimes positive and sometimes negative — but sometimes you do what you gotta do
Transport is a field-care intervention that has to be delivered at the appropriate time, to the appropriate patient in the appropriate transport unit
Training, including pediatric-specific training, reduced self-reported medication errors in a major fire-based EMS system
Vulnerable should ‘never be allowed to make their own way or be transferred by a private taxi arrangement’
8-year-old girl suffered brunt of collision and was not breathing
Boy fell backward into the pit
Little girl believed to be youngest caller in hospital history
Call was made public after mom was arrested for murder, child neglect, methamphetamine-related charges
Responders called the incident a “tragic accident”
Established yet not commonly used tool can measure weight of children to determine correct drug dosing for resuscitation
Chicago-area parents realized their pit bull was to blame after girl was rushed to hospital by ambulance
We have more choices today than ever before for challenge of keeping our most precious little cargo safe
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Some suffered concussions, few had broken bones, others had bumps and bruises
Fountain was turned off, summer sun’s heat turned access doors into a hazard
Mother began CPR after son suffered a heart attack, called 911
Goal is to be ‘minimally disruptive to the community’
Passengers injured on way to summer camp
Packets carry full cup’s worth of detergent in bite-size form
Despite CPR, 19-month-old boy remained in critical condition after being found by mother
Foul play was suspected because the boy had suspicious injuries
Father did not realize his daughter was behind him when he changed riding mower into reverse while mowing yard
After frantic ambulance search to find missing pieces, surgeons disinfected fingertips, reattached them
Girls were reportedly conscious, had fallen asleep while suntanning
Some of same paramedics who helped revive Isaac Arzate in January rushed back, tried again to save him
16-month-old boy had nearly drowned in his family’s backyard koi pond when quick-thinking cop began CPR
4-year-old was allegedly attacked while playing with neighbor’s kittens
Accident was so terrible that grief counselors were called to scene
Ambulance technicians arrived 15 minutes later, clamped baby’s umbilical cord and allowed dad to cut it
Sophie Tezsla and Jonathan Zdybel, both 11 years old, have been upgraded from critical to stable condition
A comprehensive examination of epinephrine and its prehospital uses, administration routes, doses and pharmacology
Arielle Starks died at Advocate Trinity Hospital after an ambulance carrying her to the hospital collided with a car