EMS 2003 - Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals

1. Introduction
2. Pediatric assessment
3. Using a developmental approach
4. Respiratory emergencies
5. Cardiovascular emergencies
6. Trauma
7. Toxic emergencies
8. Children in disasters
9. Emergency delivery and newborn stabilization
10. Children with special healthcare needs
11. Case scenarios and practical stations
12. Child maltreatment
13. Medicolegal and ethical considerations
14. Sudden infant deaths syndrome (SIDS) and death of a child
15. Transportation considerations
16. Written exam

1. insert simple airway adjuncts.
2. provide care to a child with special healthcare needs.
3. apply the pediatric assessment triangle to patient assessment
4. apply spinal immobilization
5. direct the actions of a resuscitation team
6. demonstrate delivery and stabilization of a newborn
7. identify signs of child maltreatment
8. discuss medicolegal and ethical considerations in pediatric care
9. manage a pediatric trauma patient
10. ventilate using a bag-valve-mask
11. manage a pediatric patient with a cardiovascular emergency
12. manage a pediatric patient with a toxic emergency
13. manage a pediatric patient with a respiratory emergency

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