Multimedia Evaluation of EMT-Paramedic Assessment and Management of Pediatric Respiratory Distress.

Conclusion: Paramedics accurately assessed severity of distress in multimedia cases of asthma/bronchospasm, bronchiolitis and croup in children, but showed significant room for improvement in correctly identifying the diagnosis and in selecting appropriate intervention(s). Age, years of EMS experience, higher volume of clinical pediatric cases, self-reported comfort with pediatric patients, and having children of their own were not associated with questionnaire performance. PMID: 32870748 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research