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PPT : Emergency Medical Service For Children (Ems-C)
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* Describe EMS-C goals & vision * Provide Alameda County status report * Identify priority projects * Discuss opportunities for future collaboration * Facilitate discussion: ideas for partnerships & feedback
National initiative designed to reduce child and youth disability and death due to severe illness and injury.
* When prevention fails, ensure that all ill or injured children & adolescents receive state of the art emergency medical care from: o prehospital personnel o ED personnel o rehabilitation specialists
* To ensure that acutely ill & injured children have access to high quality, coordinated, & comprehensive emergency / critical care services appropriate for a child’s special needs.
* EMS Authority developed: o guidelines o standards o key products o comprehensive model for EMS-C services
* The EMS-C Model – a continuum of care for: o detection of an illness or injury o emergency department care o rehabilitation
5-YEAR PLAN (2001 – 2005)
* Improve data collection & quality improvement * Integrate pediatric issues in all aspects of EMS * Expand illness & injury prevention, first aid and CPR * Optimize pediatric emergency, trauma & critical care capabilities * Develop broad based support for improving EMS-C * Improve / expand pediatric emergency training * Coordinate local, state, federal & private agency EMS-C efforts * Ensure universal access to EMS system
ROLE OF THE STATE
* Provides guidance to local planning efforts o EMSA #196 EMS-C program “Standards of Practice” and 5 year plan (published November 1994)
* Partners with Alameda County: State Projects
* Consists of multidisciplinary pediatric experts o State Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) o EMS-C Coordinators
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* In Alameda County, the goal of the EMS-C program is: o To reduce pediatric morbidity & mortality from injury & illness o To develop, implement, & integrate State/National EMS-C activities into entire spectrum of care for children & youth (under 21 years). o To include prevention & detection of illness or injury, community preparedness, EMS, critical care, & rehabilitation.
* Provide a continuum of care for pediatric patients: o ED’s and trauma centers o Rehabilitation o Adolescents at risk
* Facilitate clinical components: o Injury prevention o Illness / injury care
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