Ada SWO's vs Pedi STAT EMS

Standing Written Orders for the Ada County / City Emergency Services System These SWOs are the result of the combination of nationally recognized guidelines, local medical practice, and input from the medical directors and the Standards of Care Committee (SOCC). Sources include but are not limited to: > Basic Life Support (CPR), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS and ACLS-EP) and associated branch courses > Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) > Emergency Pediatric Care (EPC) > Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP , NALS) > Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) > Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS), Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and associated branch courses, and Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) EMS personnel are encouraged to use the guidance and algorithms of these courses to supplement SWOs. If contradiction occurs, these SWOs will supersede any other algorithm. Alternative courses of action may be utilized, when appropriate, following standard medical control, deviation, and documentation guidelines. These guidelines are for use by Ada County / City Emergency Services System personnel only.

Pedi STAT EMS was developed specifically for prehospital providers. We’ve taken all the content from our original Pedi STAT application and carefully selected components that are unique to providers in EMS. We’ve solicited feedback from leaders in out of hospital care, including paramedics, EMTs, air medical flight crews, and medical directors. We’ve condensed the content to be applicable to those providing care outside the hospital, including first responders, firefighters, EMTs, Paramedics, and Critical Care Transport providers. Medication dosing and pediatric equipment sizes are easily and rapidly accessed, and accurately calculated based on provider input of either weight, length, age, or Broselow / Pediatape weight estimates. We are attempting to eliminate medical errors by calculating not only the correct pediatric medication dose, but also the volume to be administered for patient specific conditions. We have also included algorithms and medical calculators to assist providers in multiple areas, including managing pediatric cardiac arrest, burn size estimation and fluid resuscitation, and Glasgow Coma Scale. Caring for pediatric patients is associated with a large number of challenges, the most important being selecting the correct equipment and medications, and then dosing the medications correctly. Our goal is to eliminate these challenges as much as possible, and allow the provider to concentrate on what is most important, the patient. Suggestions for improvements or additions are always welcome: Pedi-STAT.com