This section includes example protocols and guidelines, and evidence-based medicine resources.
Last updated: October 19, 2022
Prehospital Evidence Based Practice (PEP) is a collaborative effort of Canadian and international EMS clinicians (paramedics, physicians, nurses and other allied health professionals). PEP is sponsored and managed by the Dalhousie University Department of Emergency Medicine Division of EMS, and Emergency Health Services Nova Scotia.
Click on "Open Resource" and scroll down to "Pediatric" in the alphabetized list.
Topics include: Advanced Airway Management, Airway Emergency; Allergic Reaction; Altered Mental State; Burns; Cardiac Arrest & Arrhythmia; Environmental Emergency; Respiratory Distress; Shock; Trauma; Perinatal Care.
The purpose of this website is to promote openness, discussion and collaboration among system directors in the development of EMS protocols, with the goal to help improve all EMS protocols to the current state of the science using evidence-based medicine.
The list of available protocols is a work in progress.
No pediatric-specific document, would need to access each state/agency guideline to find pediatric resources.
The Prehospital Guidelines Consortium (PGC) maintains a comprehensive list of evidence-based guidelines (EBGs). This link takes you directly to their pediatric EBGs. As of August 2023, topics included:
- Neonatal Resuscitation
- Pediatric ALS
- Pediatric BLS & CPR Quality
- Pediatric Seizures
- Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants, Children, & Adolescents
- Pediatric Cervical Spine Injuries
