Injury Prevention for Medical Personnel: Reach for the Sky

Discusses injury as the leading cause of death and disability in children over the age of one year and continuing through adolescence. Many childhood injuries can be prevented with known interventions and prevention strategies. Healthcare professionals in particular can serve an important role as injury prevention advocates.  This interactive CD-ROM is a training and reference tool, targeting physicians, nurses, EMT’s and other mid-level providers. The CD reviews the leading causes of injury, associated risk factors and steps that can be taken to reduce the injury toll.  In addition, the CD identifies how medical care providers can incorporate injury prevention strategies and safety messages into their daily clinical practice. Armed with this information, healthcare professionals can be more effective as injury prevention advocates. This is a 2 CD-ROM set.

Available at the Critical Illness & Trauma Foundation for $15.00 each. See below for ordering information.

On the Same Team: Involving the Family in Prehospital Care

Embraces the philosophy of family-centered care, a philosophy that includes patients and families as part of the health care team. This concept is not new to the world of health care. However, with today’s technology, miracle medications, and fast-paced practice, the principles of family-driven services and programs are often lost. Around the nation, we are seeing many efforts to involve the family in the patient’s health care experience. In the EMS community, families are being consulted and encouraged to participate in prehospital care, and their voices are contributing to the improvement of what we do in the prehospital setting. This interactive CD-ROM program provides a background on this shift to family-driven services and offers suggestions and examples on how to incorporate family-centered care into your EMS system.

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Pediatric Basics: Age and Growth Characteristics/Psychological Aspects (version 1)

This CD-ROM based training aid provides interactive training for EMS providers involved in pediatric care. The program uses video examples, textual explanations, and on-line testing to convey critical concepts in pediatric emergent care.

Age and Growth Characteristics
Learn to recognize normal behavior and responses in all age group of children as well as what to expect in an emergency. Understanding normal behavior and responses will help you recognize abnormalities. Improve your techniques in interacting with young patients by learning about children's emotional and behavioral development.

Psychological Aspects
Understand the strong emotional responses experienced by the child and the parent or care giver, as well as yourself, when a child is seriously ill or injured. Being prepared to handle not only the physical aspects of your patient, but the psychological aspects as well, can benefit all prehospital care providers.

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Pediatric Assessment (version 1)

The most crucial skill you need when you are called to a scene involving a pediatric patient is knowing how to properly assess as well as perform life-saving interventions based on that assessment. This interactive program, which is compatible with the 1994 EMT: Basic Curriculum, uses video and text to lead you through the assessment and intervention steps, as well as skill games and scenarios to help you test your knowledge.

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Pediatric Vascular Access (version 1)

Fluid administration is a crucial part of the treatment of pediatric shock. Obtaining IV access in the field can be a real challenge because you not only have to deal with a patient who is likely fearful and distraught, but you must perform a procedure that requires both knowledge and practice. This program will show you the necessary equipment and how to prepare it, how to find a good IV site and how to handle your patient. Additionally, it contains a segment on intraosseous (IO) access.

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A Child in Need (Children and Medical Technology) (version 1)

Children with special health care needs are children with any type of disability, including physical or mental limitations. Some of these children depend on technology. Becoming familiar with the special needs of these children can help you provide good emergency care. This interactive CD-ROM explains various medical conditions and equipment you may encounter and explains how those conditions or equipment may affect your assessment and intervention. The CD also introduces you to two children with special health needs, helps you learn how to conduct a home visit so you are prepared for an emergency call and allows you to test yourself, both in knowledge tests and in a simulated emergency.

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Pediatric Respiratory Emergencies (version 1)

The respiratory system is to children what the cardiovascular system is to adults. If your pediatric patient is having respiratory problems, you need to act quickly and decisively. This program explains how to recognize respiratory distress and respiratory failure in your assessment and how to intervene. The program also details respiratory conditions you may encounter in the pediatric patient.

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Here to Help (version 1)

Here to Help takes advantage of the power and effectiveness of electronic training to explain intimate partner violence from several different perspectives -- that of a victim, law enforcement officers, EMS representative, prosecuting attorney and domestic violence professional. These viewpoints will help the EMS provider recognize domestic abuse, keep themselves safe from harm and be prepared to guide the victim to the help needed to break the cycle of violence. Resources to Help Web Site

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Dispatcher Training

The Dispatcher Training CD-ROM is designed to provide an introduction to the principles of pre-arrival instructions. This training program also reviews important dispatcher functions such as call-taking techniques, sample phone call scenarios, and handling callers of different emotional levels.

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Triaging Kids During a Disaster

This CD-ROM based training aid provides EMS personnel with basic information concerning personal protective equipment and principles of triage for both pediatric and adult patients. The purpose of the CD is to serve as both a training and reference tool. It is designed to prepare the user for a wide array of scenarios ranging from natural disasters to acts of terrorism by concentrating on some of the fundamentals associated with all multiple patient events. Issues of awareness, identification, personal protection and triage are covered.

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Bioterrorism and Trauma Training

Based on an "all hazards" approach to multiple casualty events, the purpose of this training presentation is to provide the learner with a broad overview of issues and considerations when preparing for and responding to a natural or man-made disaster.

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To order any of the above CD-ROMs, download an order form by clicking on one of the following links (Word or pdf.) Fill out and mail, e-mail, or fax with payment as directed at the bottom of the order form. If you have any questions please contact the Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation by calling 406.585.2659.