Grant funds new pediatric equipment

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May 21, 2015 - 12:00 AM

The Allen County Emergency Medical Service is better equipped to help young patients thanks to a $2,000 grant the department was awarded, enabling personnel to purchase an additional pediatric advanced life support attack pack.
The pack — commonly referred to as a “Broselow Bag” — features an array of equipment designed for use on children of all ages.
It also contains charts and tapes that provide a quick and easy way determine how much medication to give children.
“It allows us to treat our patients a little more quickly and adequately as far as being accurate on dosages, tubes, things like that,” said Corey Isbell, a paramedic and lieutenant with the Iola Fire Department. “Everything in that regard for children is weight-based.
“The most valuable part about the pack, is you can just open it up, set the tape next to the child, and you know ‘this is what I need.’”
That tool is vitally important, Isbell noted, because the nearest hospital specializing in pediatric care — Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, Mo. — is more than 100 miles away.
Isbell coordinated the grant application through the Emergency Medical Services for Children program developed by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
The department already has other Broselow Bags in its arsenal, but now such packs can be carried on all four front-line ambulances in the county, including ones in Moran and Humboldt.
Allen County’s was one of only two departments in the state to receive the EMSC grants. The other was in Phillips County.

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