EMS 459 - Emergencies in Pediatric/Geriatric Care

• Tailor basic principles of assessment, treatment, and transport to the unique needs of the pediatric patient.
• Know airway managements and respiratory distress of the pediatric patient.
• Know how to recognize and handle common pediatric medical emergencies.
• Recognize and handle the pediatric trauma patient and know the critical differences between pediatric trauma and adult trauma.
• Recognize sudden infant death syndrome, child abuse and critical incident stress, understanding reporting and dealing with such incidents.
• Become aware of the physiologic, social and psychological considerations while caring for the elderly patients: treating elderly with respect and genuine concern, correctly take patient history from the elderly, general considerations to conducting physical examinations on the geriatric population.
• Learn to assess and handle the following medical emergencies in the geriatric population: respiratory emergencies - respiratory disease in the elderly (acute pulmonary edema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia and pulmonary embolism), cardiovascular emergencies -acute changes in the cardiovascular stability due to age of patient, neurologic emergencies - changes in the brain due to loss of brain cells, atherosclerosis.