P&NDA® Essentials: Healthcare Professional 2-Days

Children hold special status in the PHEC environment, possibly not because of perceived innocence, but virtue of the fact the paramedic is aware of worldly threats to all. Many clinicians have limited experience in paediatric presentations, and despite the belief of high-acuity presentations, they account for less than 6% of ambulance attendances.

“Paediatric & Neonatal Decision-based Assessment is a System of Works designed to increase confidence & reduce cognitive loading for low-volume, high-acuity, paediatric clinical assessments, that enhance standard guidelines with appropriate equipment, in the pre-hospital emergency care environment.”

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Principles of P&NDA® & the Critical-Child Pentagon
• BOLDFACE: Go! (No Go)
• Paediatric Clinical Values
• Under 6 General Impression: Paediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT)
• Assessment of the Under 6s: Red Book/FG/Vaccinations
• Paediatric Epidemiology: So what made you think this child was Sick?
• Paediatric Observation Priority Scoring
• Equipment Requirements & WET FLAG Paediatric Resuscitation
• SCRAM™ (EMS): Airway Management & O2
• Emergency Ventilation (PEEP): Mapleson F Circuits, Inc. APL
• 6A: Paediatric Advanced Life Support Drug Formulary
• Vascular Access: IV/IO Considerations
• STEP-UP: Mental Models
• Review of ALS Paediatric Resuscitation
• CONE PADS™: What should I be doing?
• Under 1: Sepsis
• Infection & Pyrexia: Rigors, Setpoints & Calpol.
• Under 5: Choking/Anaphylaxis
• Under 6: Trauma
• Paediatric Medical / Trauma Resuscitation
• CONE PADS™: Bringing it all together…!

Cognitive loading can be countered with adequate initial training, and CPD, as well as the learned skills of appropriate paediatric equipment, increasing confidence in all aspects of paediatric prehospital emergency care.

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