Strategies and Tools for Meeting the Needs of Children: Public Health Emergencies

Emergency Preparedness: Education and Training for Treating the Pediatric Population

Slide Presentation by Michael Shannon, M.D., M.P.H.

On January 11, 2006,  Dr. Shannon made a presentation in a Web Conference entitled Emergency Preparedness: Education and Training for Treating the Pediatric Population. This is the text version of Dr. Shannon's slide presentation. Select to access the PowerPoint® slides (546 KB).

Slide 1

Emergency Preparedness: Education and Training for Treating the Pediatric Population

Michael Shannon, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
The Center for Bio-preparedness
Professor and Chair
Division of Emergency Medicine
Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Slide 2

Unmet Needs in Pediatric Emergency Preparedness

• Comprehensive, school-based emergency preparedness protocols.
• Pediatric protocols in every hospital.
• Pediatric surge capacity plans.
• Education and training on unique issues.
• Community involvement.
• Identification and reunification of children and parents.

Slide 3

Key Issues in Education and Training

• Many first responders remain inadequately trained in pediatric aspects of disaster response.
• Training programs are failing to provide specific pediatric training.
• There has been little development of DVDs slash videos as training tools.

Slide 4

Decontamination of Children: Preparedness and Response for Hospital Emergency Departments

• Video provides step-by-step demonstration of decontamination process in real time.
• Training tool for emergency responders and hospital emergency department staff.

Slide 5

Video-based Training Topics

• Responding to mental health needs of children after disaster.
• Development of comprehensive, school-based disaster plan.
• Specific to children:
  • Management of mass casualty incidents.
  • Management of bioterrorism and other infectious emergencies.
  • Management of radiologic emergencies.

Slide 6

Identification and Reunification of Children After a Mass Casualty Incident

• Requires means of rapidly collecting information on arriving casualties; e.g., digital photos.
• Photo indexing.
• Site where arriving parents can review photos.
• System for presenting select photos.

Current as of August 2006

Internet Citation:

Emergency Preparedness: Education and Training for Treating the Pediatric Population. Text version of a slide presentation at a Web conference. August 2006. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulp/btpediatric/shannontxt.htm

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