Infants Part I (1 Hour)

Introduction

With infants, it’s the littlest things that count the most.  Proper assessment and management of airway and breathing are the most critical.  The pediatric call comes at all hours of the day or night and at locations such as daycare centers, pediatrician clinics, and residences.  Many of the calls seem insignificant while some of the calls so terrifying that you will spend the rest of your life trying not to remember.   In a perfect world, we should never have to see an infant in an ambulance.   On a daily basis, calls involving infants are very rare compared to calls involving adults.  The lack of familiarity lends itself to anxiety on behalf of us who respond.   Another weakness that many of us have is that we place the faces of our own children on the infants we treat.  We are not psychiatrists, so the best advice we can give is don’t make things more complicated than they have to be.  Don’t imagine the face of your own child on the sick or injured infant.  If you can’t feel confident in your abilities when it comes to treating infants, then just be brave.  It’s that simple.