Sick Kids for Military Medicine

Caring for a critically ill child can sometimes cause anxiety and fear even in the most seasoned of medical professionals. Children have many of the same diseases and conditions as adults, yet the assessment and management principles will differ in some areas and be quite similar in others. These presentations and hands-on skills stations will review the essential components of a rapid pediatric assessment, along with some “just like adults” treatment tips. Through the use of real-life case studies and skills practice sessions, emergency, pediatric, and critical care healthcare professionals will come away better able to provide care for sick kids in the military medicine arenas.

Hands-on Skills Stations Include...

• "Bad Bones & Icky IVs" Emergency Vascular Access

• Pediatric IV practice – Hide, seek, find, and stick!

• Intraosseous access – What they don’t teach you but really should!

• "If You Can't Breathe, Nothing Else Matters" : Emergency Airway Management

• Pediatric backup airways, pediatric pathophysiology, as well as bagging babies & popping pneumos

• "Critical Calculations" : Broselow Basics & Handling Handtevy

• Real-life scenarios: Hands-on playing with Broselow tapes, Handtevy toys, and other pediatric cheat sheets to see how they actually work, don't work, and will be invaluable to your next crashing kid!

• Suggested course times: 0830-1700