Pediatric pain ems

Background. Children have differing utilization of emergency medical services (EMS) by socioeconomic status. We evaluated differences in prehospital care among children by the Child Opportunity Index (COI), the agreement between a child's COI at the scene and at home, and in-hospital outcomes for children by COI. Methods. We performed a retrospective study of pediatric (<18 years) scene encounters from approximately 2,000 United States EMS agencies from the 2021-2022 ESO Data Collaborative. We evaluated socioeconomic status using the multi-dimensional COI v2...

Background: People experiencing homelessness may utilize emergency medical services to access health care. We sought to examine the relationship between homelessness and prehospital evaluation and treatment of chest pain. Methods: We obtained 2019 data of all EMS activations from a single 9-1-1 provider in San Francisco, CA with a clinician's primary impression of chest pain. Using chart review, we categorized patients as experiencing homelessness or not and determined treatment rates between the two groups based on local chest pain/acute coronary syndrome protocol...

OBJECTIVE/INTRODUCTION: Ketamine is an opioid-alternative used for analgesia in the prehospital setting. There are knowledge gaps regarding its use during emergency medical services (EMS) encounters for pediatric patients. Our objective was to compare pain reduction, adverse events, and prehospital deaths between ketamine and opioids when used for analgesia administered by any route among pediatric patients. METHODS: This was a retrospective review of 9-1-1 EMS records of injured pediatric patients (≤17 years of age) who received ketamine or opioids for analgesia using the ESO Data Collaborative (calendar years 2019-2020)...

BACKGROUND: Pediatric prehospital encounters are proportionally low-frequency events. National pediatric readiness initiatives have targeted gaps in prehospital pediatric assessment and management. Regional studies suggest that pediatric vital signs are inconsistently obtained and documented. We aimed to assess national emergency medical services (EMS) data to evaluate completeness of assessment documentation for pediatric versus adult patients and to identify the documentation of condition-specific assessments...

Prior to 2020, pain management in the Washtenaw/Livingston County Medical Control Authority (W/L MCA) Emergency Medical Service (EMS) system in Southeast Michigan was limited to morphine, fentanyl, ketorolac, and acetaminophen. Based on the increasing evidence describing its safety and efficacy, ketamine was added to local protocols for pain management. This study aimed to evaluate differences in pain management and adverse effects of ketamine and opioid administration. Data from pediatric patients who received ketamine or an opioid in the W/L MCA EMS system from October 2019 to March 2021 were analyzed...

BACKGROUND: Pain management in the pre-hospital setting remains a particular challenge for paramedics and emergency physicians, especially in children. This study evaluates the pre-hospital use and effect of analgesics in children with trauma or pain due to other reasons. METHODS: This study is a retrospective analysis of the database of a German air rescue service and was conducted over a period of 9 years (2012-2020) to assess pain in general and whether patients with trauma pain due to other reasons received treatment with analgesics...

BACKGROUND: Treatment with analgesics for injured children is often not provided or delayed during prehospital transport. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to evaluate racial and ethnic disparities with the use of opioids during transport of injured children. METHODS: We conducted a prospective study of injured children transported to 1 of 10 emergency departments from July 2019 to April 2020. Emergency medical services (EMS) providers were surveyed about prehospital pain interventions during transport...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate endometrial stripe (EMS) thickness and its association with menstrual pattern and insulin resistance in adolescent females with or at risk for polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). METHODS: A retrospective case-control study of adolescent females ranging between 12-21 years old evaluated in the Adolescent Gynecology & Endocrinology Clinic (AGEC) at a tertiary children's hospital between 2017-2021. Transabdominal pelvic ultrasound (US) was obtained for evaluation of PCOS or acute pelvic pain...

Introduction: Information regarding prehospital ketamine use in the pediatric population is limited as existing literature focuses primarily on critical care and air transport. Our objective was to describe patient characteristics among pediatric EMS patients who received ketamine. Secondarily, we assessed effectiveness, deviation from recommended dosing, and adverse outcomes of pediatric EMS patients who received ketamine. Methods: We conducted a retrospective data review of records from the ESO Data Collaborative for all 9-1-1 transports of pediatric patients (≤ 18 years of age) who received ketamine from 2019-2020...

AIM: Our primary goal was to evaluate safety of a new emergency medical services (EMS) protocol directing non-transport of low-acuity patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of all patients in Marion County, Indiana, from March 23, 2020 to May 25, 2020 for whom a novel non-transport protocol was used by EMS for patients with low-acuity COVID-19 symptoms. We assessed paramedic compliance with the protocol to determine numbers and types of deviations...

Background: The delivery of emergency medical services (EMS) is a resource-intensive process, and prior studies suggest that EMS utilization in children may vary by socioeconomic status. The Child Opportunity Index (COI) provides a multidimensional measure of neighborhood-level resources and conditions that affect the health of children. We evaluated EMS utilization and measures of acuity among children by COI. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional study using encounters for patients less than 18 years of age from 10,067 EMS agencies in 47 US states and territories contributing to the National Emergency Medical Services Information System 2019 dataset...

OBJECTIVE: Despite many diverse findings from studies about the comorbidity of psychiatric disorders and migraine, there are still unknown points. Schemas, which are the basic structures of cognition, are understudied. This study examined the effects of sex on early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) and the clinical characteristics of migraine in adolescents with migraine. METHODS: The sample comprised 171 adolescents (67.3% females, n = 115) aged 12-18 years. The clinical characteristics of migraine (duration, severity, frequency of headaches, etc...

OBJECTIVE: Injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children. However, the epidemiology and prehospital care for pediatric unintentional injuries in Asia are still unclear. METHODS: A total of 9,737 pediatric patients aged <18 years with unintentional injuries cared for at participating centers of the Pan-Asian Trauma Outcome Study (PATOS) from October 2015 to December 2020 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into two groups: those <8 and those ≥8 years of age...

INTRODUCTION: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians commonly encounter patients with acute pain. A new set of evidence-based guidelines (EBG) was developed to assist in the prehospital management of pain. Our objective was to describe the methods used to develop these evidence-based guidelines for prehospital pain management. METHODS: The EBG development process was supported by a previous systematic review conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) covering nine different population, intervention, comparison, and outcome (PICO) questions...

This project sought to develop evidence-based guidelines for the administration of analgesics for moderate to severe pain by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians based on a separate, previously published, systematic review of the comparative effectiveness of analgesics in the prehospital setting prepared by the University of Connecticut Evidence-Based Practice Center for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). A technical expert panel (TEP) was assembled consisting of subject matter experts in prehospital and emergency care, and the development of evidence-based guidelines and patient care guidelines...

OBJECTIVE: Provision of analgesia for injured children is challenging for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians. Little is known about the effect of prehospital analgesia on emergency department (ED) care. We aimed to determine the impact of prehospital pain interventions on initial ED pain scale scores, timing and dosing of ED analgesia for injured patients transported by EMS. METHODS: This is a planned, secondary analysis of a prospective multicenter cohort of children with actual or suspected injuries transported to one of 11 PECARN-affiliated EDs from July 2019-April 2020...

BACKGROUND: Media-based educational materials (EMs) are becoming prominent. The purpose of this study was to compare print versus media-based EMs given to caregivers of pediatric and young adult patients undergoing surgery. We aimed to see whether print or media-based EMs lead to greater caregiver satisfaction, comfort, and preparedness for outpatient peripheral nerve catheter and pain pump management. We also assessed caregiver preference for EM modality. HYPOTHESIS: We hypothesized that media-based EMs would demonstrate greater overall efficacy and thus generate higher caregiver preference...

Background : The EMS Practice Analysis provides a vision of current prehospital care by defining the work performed by EMS professionals. In this manuscript, we present the National Advanced Life Support (ALS) EMS Practice Analysis for the advanced EMT (AEMT) and paramedic levels of certification. The goal of the 2019 EMS Practice Analysis is to define the work performed by EMS professionals and present a new template for future practice analyses. Methods: The project was executed in three phases. Phase 1 defined the types/frequency of EMS clinical presentations using the 2016 National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) dataset...

BACKGROUND: The risk for cervical spine injury (CSI) must be assessed in children who sustain blunt trauma. The Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) retrospectively derived CSI model identifies CSI risk in children based on emergency department (ED) provider observations. The objective of this pilot study was to determine the univariate association of emergency medical services (EMS) provider-observed historical, mechanistic, and physical examination factors with CSI in injured children...

BACKGROUND: Despite the positive dynamic changes in medicine and science, injuries continue to be the dominant cause of death among people under 45 years of age. Children's injuries are particularly dangerous as they can lead to hypovolemic shock, disability or even death. EMS uses opioid and nonopioid analgesics in order to provide relief to patients suffering from pain. The aim of this work is to analyze the types of pharmacological substances used in children in pre-hospital conditions...