Cognitive Skills

The pediatric assessment triangle is a tool for medical professionals to rapidly assess a child on sight to determine it he or she is in immediate need of rapid transport or emergency treatment before a full assessment. (MedicCast Podcast Extra - 2008)

Partnership in Outstanding Pediatric Prehospital Care (POPPC) Lecture Series from Colorado EMSC.

From the University of Colorado.

This course will cover some of the highest-stress patient populations: pregnant patients and kids. You will build on your knowledge of anatomy, patient assessment and scene safety to develop an approach to these new patient populations. We will walk through the things that make pregnant patients and pediatric patients different but also what makes them the same as all the patients you care for.

Syllabus includes: Pregnancy, Labor, and Delivery (9 videos {49 min}, 5 readings, 2 quizzes); Neonatal Care and Pediatric Basics (12 videos {65 min}, 4 readings, 1 quiz); Pediatric Pathology and Intervention - (18 videos {103 min}, 6 readings, 1 quiz)

TEN-4-FACESp is a useful acronym to help screen children under 4 years of age with bruising to identify when a bruise is more likely to be caused by abuse than accidental injury. TEN-4-FACESp stands for bruising to the Torso, Ears, Neck, Frenulum, Angle of the jaw, Cheeks, Eyelids or Subconjunctivae, “4” represents infants 4 months and younger with any bruise, anywhere, and “p” represents the presence of patterned bruising.