PEDIATRICS Vol. 78 No. 5 November 1986, pp. 808-812
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Emergency Medical Services and the Pediatric Patient: Are the Needs Being Met? II. Training and Equipping Emergency Medical Services Providers for Pediatric Emergencies

James S. Seidel MD, PhD1

1 From the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles

Emergency medical services have been organized to meet the needs of adult patients. A study was undertaken to determine the training in pediatrics offered to paramedics and emergency medical technicians throughout the United States and the equipment carried by prehospital care provider agencies. Most training (50%) takes place at colleges and universities and the remainder at hospitals and emergency medical services agencies. Many programs (40%) have less than ten hours of didactic training in pediatrics and 41% offer ten hours or less of clinical experience. Some programs offer no training in pediatric emergency medicine. The most common deficiencies in pediatric equipment included back-boards, pediatric drugs, resuscitation masks, and small intravenous catheters. More attention to training and equipping prehospital personnel for pediatric emergencies may help to improve outcomes of out-of-hospital resuscitations of infants and children.

Key Words: prehospital care • pediatric emergency • emergency medical services • paramedic training • emergency medical technician

Submitted on January 24, 1986
Accepted on March 5, 1986




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