EPC — Emergency Pediatric Care

Emergency Pediatric Care (EPC) is an education program from the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT). This program is for prehospital practitioners committed to providing quality care for pediatric patients. Course lectures and interactive sessions address assessment; airway, breathing and circulation; understanding and caring for children; hypoperfusion and shock; cardiac emergencies and congenital cardiac defects, common medical emergencies, trauma, newborn resuscitation, vascular access, care team management, spinal motion restriction, children with special health-care needs, identification of life threats, scene choreography, transport decisions, and child abuse and neglect.

All EMS practitioners who care for ill or injured children should take an EPC course. Typical participants will include EMT-Basics, EMT-Intermediates, and Paramedics. Physicians, nurses, physician's assistants and other healthcare professionals who work with prehospital care providers are also encouraged to attend.

We've designed EPC specifically to ensure ill or injured children receive the highest quality of emergency care. We know that pediatric calls can be stressful for everyone involved. We want to help prehospital practitioners learn the skills they need to be comfortable and more confident in assisting children and their family members.

In addition, the EPC program offers flexibility in the delivery of the course. The provider course may be offered in the tradional 16-hour face-to-face format, or in a hybrid format that combines eight hours of online didactics with eight hours of face-to-face interactive stations. This modular course format can fulfill the pediatric clinical and educational needs of an EMS agency while minimizing budgetary and logistical impacts.  Click here for EPC online demo. 

For information about establishing a EPC course site in your area, please refer to our list of EPC Regional Coordinators and Affiliate Faculty. To purchase textbooks, logo wear, lapel pins and much more. Click on the link below:

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