The Sandell Paediatric Emergency Tape™
The UK’s Ambulance Service has seen dramatic changes in recent years, and now plays a major role in the provision of Community Health Services. Traditional roles (resuscitation, trauma and acute care) have been expanded, developing the Ambulance Service into a mobile health resource - the NHS “on your doorstep” – with Ambulance Clinicians increasingly assessing and treating patients, including children, in the community. Children make up 10% of the emergency calls to the ambulance service and although the vast majority are well and require little intervention, 5% will require resuscitation. In these circumstances, crews can find themselves dealing with paediatric problems with relatively little previous clinical experience or exposure.
The SANDELL TAPE Paediatric Emergency Tape™ has been designed to address these issues, in keeping with JRCALCs’ recommended guidelines and to this purpose has received the committee’s full endorsement. It encompasses the entire spectrum of paediatric emergency medicine from ages 0-11 years and details not just Basic and Advanced Life Support interventions, but also simple medical interventions such as analgesia and nebulisation, reflecting the new roles provided by ambulance staff. Having reviewed this product, I am confident that this chart provides a clear and concise reference for all those involved in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, and it’s use will clearly be widespread.
Yes this chart was primarily designed for the UK’s Ambulance Service, but as an evidenced-based, fully referenced tool, the SANDELL TAPE Paediatric Emergency Tape™ is an invaluable “how to” guide to Paediatric Emergencies and it will no doubt find it’s way onto Cardiac Arrest Trolleys throughout Paediatric Emergency Departments, Minor Injuries Units, Resuscitation and Trauma Bays, Children’s Wards, Ambulatory Departments, Outpatient Departments, GP Surgeries etc.
I would recommend it, wholeheartedly without hesitation.
Dr Ian Maconochie, MB BS FFAEM FRCPCH
Paediatric Accident & Emergency Consultant.
Department of Accident & Emergency, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing, Imperial College School of Medicine at St. Mary's Hospital,
South Wharf Road, Paddington
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