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Friday, January 30, 2004 12:00:00
Over the past two years, NAEMT’s Pediatric Prehospital Care (PPC)
committee has been blessed with the donation of lots of training
equipment and supplies. Numerous manufacturers and distributors, most
of whom are NAEMT sponsors, generously provided PPC with the pediatric
equipment and supplies that we needed to conduct our initial courses.
As PPC continues to grow, the Executive Committee (EC) works diligently
to find ways to fulfill the pediatric training needs of the EMS
community. Sometimes, we identify needs that are beyond our own
association. Such was the case with the National Native American EMS
Association (NNAEMSA), which represents EMS professionals in more than
25 states, 125 hospitals and 85 tribal EMS services.
The logistics of providing educational courses to the NNAEMSA
membership is a challenge most of us don’t understand. EMS training is
provided through a relationship between the Mountain Plains Health
Consortium (MPHC) and the US Department of Health Indian Health
Services (IHS). MPHC staff members (Larry Richmond, Lynn Birk and Glenn
Goodman) literally travel from shore to shore and border to border to
conduct a full range of EMS initial and continuing education courses.
In fact, their schedule is so grueling that recently one instructor was
on a 46-day trip, teaching PPC, PHTLS, AMLS, EMT-Basic recertification,
ACLS, and PALS courses in four US time zones. This schedule did not
include the NAEMT Annual Meeting, where all three MPHC staff assisted
with the national PPC course.
In an effort to assist the NNAEMSA in its training efforts, the PPC EC,
with the approval of NAEMT President John Roquemore, has donated all of
its pediatric training equipment to the NNAEMSA. This donation will
allow NNAEMSA and MPHC to conduct a full PPC course without taxing the
resources of other courses.
When notified of the donation, IHS EMS Program Manager Cathy
Strueckemann and NNAEMSA Executive Director Chebon Tiger were extremely
pleased by both the donation and the collaboration between NAEMT and
NNAEMSA. This donation will help countless EMS providers throughout the
United States learn the needed skills to provide the best possible care
to their most valued resource -- the children.
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