The courses teach prehospital professionals how to better assess and manage ill or injured children. This course offers registrants the opportunity to increase their skills and knowledge of prehospital pediatric care. This is accomplished by combining hands-on skills stations, interactive scenarios and lectures. This course offers registrants the opportunity to increase their knowledge and skill level on treating the pediatric patient in the prehospital setting. Lecture, interactive scenarios and hands-on sections make up this course.
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The patient assessment triangle represents the essence of the PEPP patient assessment method, which includes assessing appearance, work of breathing and circulation to skin. Registrants must be physicians, nurses, paramedics, emergency medical technicians, or other healthcare personnel whose occupation requires managing the pediatric patient. Serving infants to adolescents, Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati is an international leader in pediatric healthcare, research and education.