Prehospital Practitioners

SAEM Manuscript, published November 2012. Objectives: Reuniting children with their families after a disaster poses unique challenges. The objective was to pilot test the ability of a novel image-based tool to assist a parent in …

SAEM Manuscript, published November 2012. Objectives: Reuniting children with their families after a disaster poses unique challenges. The objective was to pilot test the ability of a novel image-based tool to assist a parent in …

This measure is intended to assist EMS professionals in enhancing quality of care. The Measure is not a clinical guideline and does not establish a standard of medical care and has not been tested for …

Objective: To identify Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider perceptions of factors that may affect the occurrence, identification, reporting, and reduction of near misses and adverse events in the pediatric EMS patient. Click "Open Resource" to …

Article published in Prehospital Emergency Care, July 2020

(Pediatric Assessment) Pediatric Life Support (PLS) courses and instructional programs are educational tools developed to teach resuscitation and stabilization of children who are critically ill or injured. A number of PLS courses have been developed …

This measure is intended to assist EMS professionals in enhancing quality of care. The Measure is not a clinical guideline and does not establish a standard of medical care and has not been tested for …

The FAMILY (Family Assessment of Medical Interventions & Liaisons with the Young) EMS Insturument allows for standardized collection of family and caregiver satisfaction with pediatric EMS care. It was derived via a modified Delhi method; …

Resources in this section come from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). The IHI's goal is to build practical improvement capability based on the science of improvement into every organization, health care executive, and professional, …