Prehospital Practitioners

This presentation is part of the 2022 EMSC Day Webinar "COPE-ing with the Challenges of Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Emergencies". In this presentation, Dr. Nicolaus Glomb reviews pediatric behavioral health emergency (BHE) care; describes …

Resources developed to assist EMS providers with an approach to better understand how to provide “next steps" including self-care when a child dies due to severe trauma or illness in the prehospital environment.

Presented February 20, 2019 Fatality Review personnel, caregivers, and workers dealing with bereaved families often express their need to know more about how to communicate with and provide services for families following an infant or …

These communication cards, originally created by the Minnesota EMSC Program, have been adapted by a few states. Each version is available here.

Example guidelines/protocols from state EMS offices. (section last updated July 11, 2022)

Safely and effectively managing pain in our pediatric patients is a primary responsibility for our EMS clinicians. Medical directors must be able to identify gaps in pediatric pain management and provide the necessary QA/QI to …

Pain fact infographic from Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) on the benefits of psychological therapies in children and adolescents with headache pain.

Andrea Furlan, MD, PhD., from Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) discusses evidence-based strategies to help babies, children and adults to overcome their fear of needles and to decrease pain from needle pokes.

Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (PAMI®) developed brochure on use of cardboard VR with a listing of suggested free applications to accompany use with smartphones.

Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (PAMI) has created this video guide to simplify use of our virtual reality viewer to help ease pain and anxiety for pediatric and adult patients. Virtual reality has proven to …

Learn about the Pain Assessment and Management Initiative (PAMI®) Virtual Reality Viewer tool that is recommended for non-pharmacologic and distraction toolkits to assist pediatric patients in pain. Virtual reality has proven to be an effective …

The Columbia Protocol is a series of simple, plain-language questions that support suicide risk assessments by prehospital practitioners, clinicians, nurses, patients and families and researchers.

The Pediatric Tabletop Exercise Resource Kit provides step by step guidance to prepare for and implement a pediatric tabletop exercise in a community. Templates are provided for agendas, email invitations, and follow-up work. Additional resources …

Children with chronic medical conditions rely on complex management plans for problems that cause them to be at increased risk for subop- timal outcomes in emergency situations. The emergency information form (EIF) is a medical …

AAP Policy Statement. November 2016. Please refer to pages 4-5 for prehospital-related information.

Pediatric Status Epilepticus Algorithm co-developed by EIIC and TREKK (Canada)

This model protocol incorporates elements of an evidence-based guideline for prehospital analgesia in trauma and evidence-based guidelines for prehospital pain management created using the National Prehospital Evidence-Based Guideline Model Process.

National EMS Week is our annual chance to thank the incredible prehospital practitioners who serve on the front lines of health care every day. On Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Day, which falls on …

Recommended Essential Equipment for Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support Ground Ambulances 2020: A Joint Position Statement Abstract: In continued support of establishing and maintaining a foundation for standards of care, our organizations remain …