EMS Today JEMS

Is your EMS agency ready for pediatric emergencies? The National Prehospital Pediatric Readiness Project (PPRP) can help.
JEMS Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ted Lee speaks with Dr. Kathleen Adelgais and Frank St. Denis to learn more about the program.
The PPRP is an initiative to ensure all U.S. EMS agencies and fire-rescue services that respond to public 911 medical calls have essential resources in place to provide high-quality emergency care for children. The project is led by the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program in partnership with more than 30 national organizations and stakeholders.
Learn more about the assessment here.

You and your partner are savoring the last drops of the best brew from the local coffee shop when the tones drop for a seven-year-old female with shortness of breath. It’s only about two miles away at the urgent care; as you start down the road, you bounce ideas back and forth with your partner. What are some of the things you think could cause this?
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Infection control consultant Katherine West provides information about Dengue Virus, an ailment EMS providers may encounter this summer.

On this episode, Dr. Erik Axene joins the Not A-Fib Podcast to discuss his passion for teaching, continuing education and the uniqueness of Axene Continuing Education, LLC.
He talks about what led him to create his company and the stellar team he's built to deliver high-quality, engaging continuing education.
Finally, he wraps up by talking about his experience as an airway management physician for the Dallas Cowboys.

It’s a warm Friday evening in July. You’ve just wrapped up a transport and cleared the hospital. As your partner turns out of the hospital parking lot, your ambulance is dispatched to a local distribution warehouse for a worker complaining of shortness of breath.
On arrival, you load your stretcher with all your gear and prepare to get some steps in while traversing the expanse of the warehouse. As you know, warehouses are never built small, and there is always a possibility that the scene awaiting you at the patient is not what you expect.
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It’s a cold Friday night in January. You just finished an uninterrupted meal at the local Chinese restaurant with your partner when you’re dispatched to a house in town for an 88-year-old male with trouble breathing. You pull up to a one-story house, sitting slightly up on a grade. The lights are on and the front door is open. As you enter a musty smell catches you as you lock your eyes on an older male. He’s tri-poding in an old, worn, puffy rocking chair. It’s clear from his fast, shallow, pursed-lip breathing he’s in distress. You introduce yourself and accept his outstretched hand for a shake.
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