This registration provides you with a seat in one of our hybrid EPC classes, access to the online precourse learning modules, and the EPC certification ecard after successful completion. The course fee includes the required textbook on loan for this course, and the Course Manual that is yours to keep. If you want to keep the textbook, select it as an add-on purchase with this course registration. There is online precourse work to complete in order to attend the class.
Emergency Pediatric Care focuses on critical pediatric physiology, illnesses, injuries, and interventions to aid EMS practitioners in providing evidence-based care to our youngest patients. Skills and patient simulations in the course support didactic content to ensure competency. The NAEMT EPC Course:
- Promotes critical thinking, the foundation to providing quality care and formulating a differential diagnosis of the pediatric patient
- Includes the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) as a tool to obtain a first impression in the pediatric assessment
- Emphasizes the importance of family-centered care
- Understanding & communicating with children
- Airway management, breathing and oxygenation
- Recognizing child abuse and neglect
- Newborn resuscitation
- Hypoperfusion and shock
- Cardiac emergencies
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