Emergency Pediatric Care (EPC)

Combined Provider (ALS and BLS)

Class meets 8-5 both days

This 16-hour course is designed to develop the skills that are part of the spectrum of prehospital care. The course fosters ALS and BLS teamwork as it should occur in the care of patients and provides BLS and ALS providers a review of the fundamental skills and knowledge needed to care for a child.

 EPC participants learn:

• Application of the pediatric assessment triangle (PAT)
• Family centered care
• Assessment skills for pediatric patients
• Critical thinking skills
• Transport decision-making
• Physiological and developmental stages of childhood

 Course lectures and interactive sessions address assessment; airway, breathing and circulation; understanding and caring for children; hypoperfusion and shock; cardiac emergencies and congenital cardiac defects; common medical emergencies; trauma; newborn resuscitation; vascular access; care team management; spinal motion restriction; children with special needs; identification of life threats; scene choreography; and child abuse and neglect.