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Preparing for the most stressful call you can receive: pediatric cardiorespiratory arrest

June 29, 2022 10:49 AM •

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In this episode of the MCHD Paramedic Podcast, the Montgomery County Hospital District EMS service Medical Directors, Dr. Robert Dickson and Dr. Casey Patrick, are joined by MCHD medic Lily Trosclair to discuss an interesting case. This one began with a pediatric cardiorespiratory arrest but fortunately has a happy ending.

Trosclair recounts the call where upon arrival, she found a young child, unconscious, unresponsive, pale, a little cyanotic around the lips, with CPR actively being administered by a family member – bad shape if you consider the pediatric general assessment triangle.

Hear more about how they managed this patient and how you can pregame for the most stressful call you can receive.

References

1. Heffner AC, Swords D, Kline JA, Jones AE. The frequency and significance of postintubation hypotension during emergency airway management. J Crit Care. 2012 Aug;27(4):417.e9-13.

2. www.emdocs.net/critical-asthma-p…ls-of-management/

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MCHD Paramedic Podcast

The MCHD Paramedic Podcast was launched in early 2018 in an effort to provide easily consumable core-content EMS education and insights from prehospital care thought leaders. The Clinical Services Department of The Montgomery County Hospital District EMS service developed the podcast as a tool to better engage and disseminate continuing education to our MCHD medics as well as first responders and EMS professionals nationwide.

Dr. Casey Patrick is the assistant medical director for Montgomery County Hospital District EMS and is a practicing emergency physician in multiple community emergency departments across Greater Houston. His EMS educational focus is on innovative paramedic teaching via the MCHD Paramedic Podcast. Dr. Patrick’s prehospital clinical research involves the investigation of paramedic use of bolus dose intravenous nitroglycerin for acute pulmonary edema and the implementation of lung protective ventilation strategies for intubated EMS patients. Casey and his wife, Alyssa, work and live in Conroe, Texas, and Spokane, Washington. Together they have five children: Mia, Ainsley, Brock, Dean and Will.

Dr. Dickson graduated with honors from the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio in 2001 and completed emergency medicine training at Indiana University in 2004. He serves as the EMS medical director at Montgomery County Hospital District EMS and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His academic interests include systems of care in stroke and other time-sensitive emergencies, neurologic emergencies and education. He is board certified in emergency medicine in both the U.S. and Australasia, and has subspecialty board certification in EMS medicine. He has authored multiple professional articles and presented at regional, national and international conferences on emergency medicine and EMS topics.