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Here is the National Emergency Medical Nursing Services Program for Pediatric Patients in the United States of America.
The National Emergency Medical Services Program for Pediatric Patients (Emergency Medical Services for Children Program, EMSC) is active throughout the United States of America and is aimed at improving the quality of medical-nursing-pediatric assistance.
This with the aim of reducing infant morbidity and mortality, which mostly derive from serious illness or trauma.
This federal initiative was born out of a growing recognition that children have unique needs in emergency situations, which often vary from those of adults due to physiological, developmental and psychological differences.
The program is federally funded to expand and improve emergency medical services for children in every state.
Grant funding supported improvements such as:
- adding child-friendly equipment to ambulances and emergency wards;
- support programs to prevent pediatric injuries;
- technical training aimed at emergency physicians (EMTs), paramedics (nurses) and other providers of emergency medical care;
- development of educational materials to cover every aspect of pediatric emergency care.
The project makes it possible to leverage the expertise and data of child emergency department teams with the US local emergency response system to provide improvements in pediatric medical care.
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