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Each year, National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week is hosted by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in partnership with the National Associations of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) to recognize and celebrate the work …

The EMSC Pulse newsletter is a digest of news and activities across the Emergency Medical Services for Children program. Each issue also includes information about the broader pediatric emergency care community. EMSC Pulse is published …

Pediatric information integrated throughout the model guidelines. Pediatric-specific guidelines start on page 144 (BRUE, Bronchiolitis, Croup, Neonatal Reususcitation, Childbirth). Additional pediatric-specific information includes: Pediatric Vitals/GCS (page 16); Pediatric Glasgow Coma Scale (page 17); Pediatric Syncope …

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) Field Trauma Triage Guidelines (FTTG), for use by clinicians nationwide, provide evidence-based criteria in making care and transport decisions for patients with traumatic injuries in the prehospital setting.

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.

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 …

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 …

This video game - focuses on prehospital triage of pediatric and adult disaster victims. You are a paramedic responding to a series of multiple casualty incidents that have occurred in your city. Fire personnel are …

This webinar featured two EMSC Targeted Issues projects. The first project, Treat the Streets, examines how a pediatric community paramedicine program was able to address identified gaps in pediatric asthma care, reduce emergency department (ED) …

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 …

From Massachusetts Office of EMS (effective 12/15/2016) Advanced Life Support (ALS) Equipment List

In September 2019, the U.S. HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response (ASPR) awarded two cooperative agreements totaling $6 million to pilot the creation of Pediatric Disaster Care Centers of Excellence(COE) to …

Organizational Principles to Guide and Define the Child Health Care System and/or Improve the Health of all Children. In this policy statement, ACEP, the AAP, and the ENA recommend methods to Improve Entry Into the …

Hyperlinks to information on state requirements for ambulance equipment.

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

From Massachusetts Office of EMS (effective 12/15/2016) Basic Life Support (BLS) Equipment List

Behavioral skills are interpersonal behaviors that connect to successful performance. Examples include providing patient- and family-centered care, being culturally aware, and using principles of team-based care.