On this episode of the Pediatric EMS Podcast focuses on the case of a pediatric out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest. Dr. Finney and Dr. Romeo Ignacio discuss the unique management priorities for traumatic arrest and how it differs compared to medical cardiac arrest.
The emDOCs.net team is very happy to collaborate with PECARN STELAR (Seattle, Dallas/Texas, and Los Angeles) Node and the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center (EIIC) in presenting high-yield pediatric topics that highlight evidence based medicine with solid research.
PECARN STELAR Podcast – Episode 1: Anaphylaxis Read More »
We are in the midst of a staggering mental health crisis. Thousands of children and adolescents spend days at time in Emergency Departments waiting for definitive mental health disposition.
PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 5: The Boarded ED Patient Read More »
There are protocols in place that assist highly trained Emergency Medical Service providers in assuring that agitated children are safely transported to their destination. This podcast episode is all about what prehospital providers should do to get these agitated children safely to the ED.
PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 4: Safe prehospital transport Read More »
When we think of managing agitated patients we think of medicines – but that shouldn’t be our first option. However, medications can be adjuncts to non-pharmacologic means to help keep agitated children safe from harm. This podcast episode is all about age-appropriate pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children.
PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 3: Pharmacologic Management Read More »
Agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. This podcast episode is all about age-appropriate non pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children. It is also episode 2 in a 5 episode series focused on agitation in children and adolescents.
PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 2: Non-Pharmacologic Management Read More »
Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with metal health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. Why then do we persist with the “is it medical/organic or psych” question?
PEM Currents – Agitation in Children – Episode 1: Differentiating Organic vs Psychiatric Read More »
Few things are more synonymous with pediatric emergency care than “throat pain” and “trauma.” If you are seeing children in the ED right now, I’m sure there is one complaining of sore throat and another has had a recent traumatic injury.
Laryngeal Fracture Read More »
When you give only after you’re asked, you’ve waited too long.
– John Mason
PEM Playbook – Supraglottic Airways Read More »
