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Emergency Medical Services for Children

Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Emergency Health Information Sheet System

The EMSC program and its partners have developed an online service to enable parents/guardians of children with special health care needs to fill out information sheets about their children, in an effort to facilitate better emergency care by EMS responders and hospitals. Please use the link below to create or retrieve an emergency health information sheet for your child.

Additional information about the CSHCN Emergency Health Information Sheet System:

Utah EMSC Pediatric Off-line Protocol Guidelines

The Utah pediatric off-line protocol guidelines were developed in partnership by Primary Children’s Medical Center and Utah Department of Health Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Program. EMS medical directors are strongly encouraged to adopt these off-line pediatric protocols for their EMS agency. All emergency department staff providing on-line medical direction to EMS providers are encouraged to become familiar with these protocols in order to provide quality on-line medical direction.

All Utah EMS providers, ED staff and Medical Control Physicians are invited to presentations of the Utah EMSC Pediatric Off-line Protocols by Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) and Primary Children’s Medical Center (PCMC). CME credit can be obtained for physicians, nurses and EMS providers. The protocol presentations will focus on prehospital care by the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provider. The protocols are to serve as a guideline for EMS and their medical direction. Presentations are at the PCMC auditorium each Thursday:

DateTimeTopic
July 2, 200915:00Pediatric Assessment
July 9, 200915:00Assessment of the Child with Special Health Care Needs
Assessment of the Neonate
July 16, 200915:00Altered Mental Status and Seizures
July 23, 200915:00Fever and Pain
July 30, 200915:00Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia

You can also watch the archived presentations online via the Utah Telehealth Network.

Please direct any questions or concerns to the EMSC Program Manager, Kristin Lauria Gurley, MS, MPH, at kgurley@utah.gov or 801-273-6669.

Family Centered Care in the Prehospital Setting

EMSC Training

The EMSC program offers the following training:

  • Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP)
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
  • Pediatric Respiratory Emergencies CME Training
  • Pediatric Immobilization CME Training
  • Broselow Training

See upcoming courses or request a course to be conducted in your area...

Current Concepts in Neonatal & Pediatric Transport Conference
This three-day conference held annually in February provides a comprehensive approach to clinical issues of neonatal and pediatric transport. Includes pre-conference workshops for EMS responders. Information and registration...

EMSC 2006 Needs Assessment Results

The 2006 EMSC Needs Assessment was conducted to

  1. Assess EMS Providers’ perception of the delivery of EMS to children within our state.
  2. Determine how Utah EMSC can best meet the needs of EMS providers.

The results are being used to guide the program activities of EMSC. Click on any of the links below (PDF) to learn about the results and how EMSC is addressing the identified needs.

EMSC Coordinator Resource Area

The EMSC Coordinator Resource Area provides training resources and other materials for EMSC coordinators. Login is required. To obtain login information, please contact Kristin Gurley (contact information at bottom of this page).

Notices

Pediatric multicasualty triage presentation (JumpSTART.ppt) may be run or downloaded from this site.

Questions? Contact Kristin Gurley, kgurley@utah.gov or 801-273-6669.

Updated June 24, 2009