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New Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Product Posted to NRC Website

Feb 18, 2009

Pediatric Disaster Preparedness: A Resource for Planning, Management and Provision of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care is now available as a downloadable PDF file.
Pediatric Disaster Preparedness: A Resource for Planning, Management and Provision of Out-of-Hospital Emergency Care is now available as a downloadable PDF file. This resource, developed by the Center for Pediatric Emergency Medicine on behalf of the EMSC National Resource Center, focuses on the practical and essential elements of pediatric prehospital emergency care in EMS system planning for disasters and terrorism. It is designed for use by EMS agency and system medical directors and administrators, emergency managers, and any other key stakeholders who will be concerned with the functions and activities of EMS care providers during a disaster, terror event, or other public health emergency.

To download the document, go to
http://cpem.med.nyu.edu/files/cpem/u3/pediatric_disaster_preparedness.pdf.